SATA is definately the way to go

[1sikbITCH]

For the very first time I bought a 160GB Seagate Barracuda (7200rpm). Now I realize I am running my 2500+ Barton at 3200+ with 1GB of PC3200, but when I loaded XP on the SATA drive, I was done the initial Windows installation in about 15 minutes. And this thing boots so fast if you blink you'll miss it.

I didn't expect to notice a difference after reading a lot of posts on this board, but I'm here to tell you that it is definately noticable. Transfering files wasn't any faster, but the other drives are IDE drives so I guess they are the bottleneck there. I'll be phasing out my IDE drives now.

 

[0roo0roo]

its no faster then a plain ata 160gb barracuda. your just impressesd wityh your new system. serial ata doesn't have new features over plain ata at the moment. its in your head.

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
its no faster then a plain ata 160gb barracuda. your just impressesd wityh your new system. serial ata doesn't have new features over plain ata at the moment. its in your head.

The cables are much nicer though...

 

[EeyoreX]

its no faster then a plain ata 160gb barracuda. your just impressesd wityh your new system. serial ata doesn't have new features over plain ata at the moment. its in your head.

The cables are much nicer though...

Yep. And at this point about all SATA is really good for. Well, that and Raptor.

\Dan

 

[1sikbITCH]

Well damn, fella's

I've never really seen an increase like this before by upgrading the ram and chip; but I guess going from 266mhz to 400mhz is a pretty big jump.

 

[smokedturkey]

i agree. sata is a joke

 

[LouPoir]

Serial ATA same as PATA

Lou