sata versus ide

[xaeniac]

Any reasons to go Sata besides the nice cabling they provide? I don't see any performance issues with IDE compared to SATA until SATAII. Will boards have IDE interfaces for another 2 years?

 

[UsandThem]

Originally posted by: xaeniac
Any reasons to go Sata besides the nice cabling they provide? I don't see any performance issues with IDE compared to SATA until SATAII. Will boards have IDE interfaces for another 2 years?

It's really a toss up right now. My Sata drive is slightly faster than my IDE drive according to most tests I run.

 

[natto fire]

I think 2 years is likely. Although with PATA cards becoming very cheap, who knows?

 

[Tom93R1]

My 7200rpm SATA drive benchmarks in my tests about 30% faster for sustained read rates than my 7200rpm IDE. Write speed is almost exactly the same.

 

[VRXJudge]

Is the buffer and storage space the same on both? Larger storage and larger buffer size usually indicate higher speed.

 

[Tom93R1]

My drives are 100GB WD 7200rpm IDE 8MB buffer and 80GB Hitachi 7200 SATA 8MB buffer