Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 PATA or SATA?

[NomisST]

I bought two drives on newegg. The drives I bought were two PATA Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Drives. When it arrived I opened the box and they were SATA drives. They sent me the wrong drives. Now what I am contemplating about is I got reviews for the pata which were extremely good and I got reviews for the SATA and they weren't as good. The SATA had a lot of noise problems, but I wasn't sure if there suppose to sound having a high pitched voice. Yes my motherboard supports SATA. What should I do? Return the SATA drives and swap them for PATA drives or keep the SATA? Also what about going all out SATA? I was on the lines of keeping these two SATA drives and buying two more Barracudas WIth PATA, because on my mobo it has this feature called enhanced mode where I can have 6 devices on my Computer. So I was going to have 2 SATA Hd's, 2 PATA Hd's and a cd-rw and dvd-rw. What I really want to know is can you have 4 SATA Hard Drives And 2 IDE Drives? Thanks hope to hear replies.

 

[Schadenfroh]

they perform the same

post your system specs so we can know if you have enough sata channels, because sata requires individual channels per drive

 

[Ionizer86]

The 7200.7 SATA is supposed to be a tad faster, at the cost of noise. It's up to you what you like better.

 

[Boonesmi]

the Sata version is a good bit faster then the Pata
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/seagate-barracuda72007_16.html

they probably just tuned the sata firmware for better performance to justify the price difference

 

[NomisST]

Abit IC7-G Motherboard
Pentium IV 3.0ghz 800fsb CPU
2 Sticks Of Corsair XMS PC 3200 512mb RAM
Viewsonic P90f Monitor
Klipsch 5.1 Promedia Speakers
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO AIW Video Card
Sound Blaster Extigy Sound Card
Logitech MX700 Duo Keyboard & Mouse

On my mobo, there is SATA slot 1, 2, 3, 4 and then there are 2 IDE ports and 1 Foppy port. What I want is 4 SATA drives and a CD-RW And DVD-RW. Now I don't know if my mobo could do that. I hope it can because it has a mode called enhanced mode which let's up to 6 devices on my comp. I just don't know if you can use all SATA. If I can't then I'm probably going to just do 2 SATA Drives, 2 PATA drives, the CD-RW, and DVD-RW. My last option is to send the SATA drives back for PATA and have 4 PATA devices and just have my CD-RW and DVD-RW and put them in USB enclosure cases. Too maynt hings to think about. I just want the best option. I hope it can do the 6 devices. Thanks!

 

[JBT]

If there is 4 SATA ports u should be able to use 4 SATA devices, with 2 IDE controlers that another 4 devices. I think you have enough... for what you want.

 

[0roo0roo]

what he said. only thing is two ide devices have lower performance when both are accessed at the same time on the same cable. no biggie, just stick one optical on each pata and one hd on each too or mix and match...or buy a silicon image pata controller for ~20 bux if u feel anal.