SATA boot times

[imported_sphinx]

I had read somewhere that the boot times for the SATA were longer than PATA. Has as anyone ever experienced this or is it just talk. Only reason I ask, I plan on upgrading from my old box to the nf4 when it comes out. And, I don't want to have any problems setting it up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ts3433]

(edit: stupidity, kill my account)

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: ts3433
I haven't heard it about SATA itself, but I know that that'll happen if you have RAID set up.

Care to elaborate about that? Why would RAID be slower?

 

[ts3433]

(edit: stupidity, kill my account)

 

[GprophetB]

I just wanna ride my motor ... .. cylce

???

as for the odd raid explanation ... errr ?

can you post where you read this (about sata drives) and maybe we can clear this up

 

[esun]

In my experience, RAID increases boot times as the RAID controller has to detect the drives connected to it, much like your IDE controller does every time you boot. It doesn't add to the boot time becuase it is slower or anything.

 

[TwYsTeD]

I have 4 SATA hard drives. 2x 74 gig raptors in RAID 0. 2x 160 gig Hitachi's in raid 0.

From the time I press the power button, it takes me about 6-7 seconds to get into windows XP. I only see a flash of the spash screen and then I'm in windows.

So, I'm not sure where you're getting your info 😛

 

[imported_sphinx]

Well, I don't plan on running a RAID array. Just the system drive and a storage drive. I'll see if I can find where I read it. It was a while back when I had read about it. When SATA drives first came out. But I will check into where I found it.