Serial ATA Harddrives

[faye]

Hi,

if i have a motherbaord that support SATA, should i go with SATA harddrive?

Don't know in the future if harddrives are tend to be SATA.?

comparing a SATA like Seagate Barra...... V (spelling) SATA 80G to a WD800JB 80G ata-100

which one will perform better in gaming? file moving? burning cd? and stability?

thanks

 

[EeyoreX]

The future of hard drives is SATA. It will take a couple/few years for it to happen, but PATA hard drives will go the way of the dodo. Depending on your system (in any board without an Intel Canterwood chipset) you will not get much/any performance boost really, as the SATA bus is still hobbled by the PCI speeds. The only current SATA drive in that case that might give you a little speed boost is a WD Raptor, but that is due to the 10,000rpm more than the SATA. So gaming and file transfers should benefit, if only by a little bit. CD burning should not be affected one way or the other, and stability is going to be no different (though, how does one measure stability in a hard drive?). For more information, Storage Review is a great source of information on hard drives.

\Dan

 

[EeyoreX]

Double tap.

\Dan

 

[faye]

oh thanks for the input.

i was thinking to get a new harddrive for a new system.

 

[LED]

Only true SATA HD is made by Seagate as the others have an adapted chip in the HD itself to make it SATA compatable so going with either will work for now cause noticeble spped difference between the 2 just isn't there. Yes the Raptor is faster but until SATA300 becomes available go with the best deal between the 2 is my advice...

Edit=Reason being is the WD PATA has a 3 yr warranty while the SATA Cuda has 1...course the Raptor has 5

 

[Lorne]

Faye, Go for the best buck, Any drive 7200rpm will suffice.
If your intention is a raid, read around youll get the idea of what the best drives to run.
SATA limit is not the PCI bus unless you run a RAID, Its own hardware is the limiting factor as with all HD's.