What is the difference between a SATA drive and a regular EIDE one?

[imported_myst]

or is there one
is the fastest speed for a ide/eide one 7200rpm?

 

[AtlantaBob]

Different connection, probably better airflow from reduced cables, hot-swapable, and theoretically higher throughput (although I believe that with the disks we have now, we won't see much/any real world improvement.)

I'm sure someone will correct my mistakes

Edit 2: I'm a moron about WD Raptors. Obviously, I don't have one.

 

[sniperruff]

SATA = 150mbps
ATA (IDE) = effectively 100mbps. yes even the ATA133 actually isn't 133mbps i think.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Connector, specs.
Some SATA drives are of newer generation than their IDE counterparts.

The fastest RPM spindle rate for SATA is currently 10000RPM in the WD Raptor while the current maximum for IDE hard drives is 7200rpm.

SATA support hot-swap which helps when a drive fails in a server, etc. etc.

 

[stevty2889]

Basicly the smaller cable is the only real advantage, because the drives mechanicly can't even fully utilize ata100, let alone 133 or 150. They are still 7200rpm. The WD raptor is an exception because it's 10k rpm and SATA only, but in most cases there is not much of an advantage there either. Some of the SATA II drives have some added features, 16mb cache, NCQ etc. but again, not a huge performance differance.

 

[imported_myst]

hmm
what kind of hard drive should i get that isnt too expensive, but fast? do i need to buy a lot of new hardware to be able to use these drives?

 

[imported_Kensai]

Originally posted by: myst
hmm
what kind of hard drive should i get that isnt too expensive, but fast? do i need to buy a lot of new hardware to be able to use these drives?

99.9% of new motherboards support SATA. The nForce 3 and 4 series have native support for it.

My suggestion is the Seagate 7200.8 series.

 

[imported_myst]

should i just get a SATA 10k rpm one?
my MB is Asus A7V333 (5 PCI, 1 AGP Pro, 3 DDR DIMM)

 

[imported_myst]

should i just get a SATA 10k rpm one?
my MB is Asus A7V333 (5 PCI, 1 AGP Pro, 3 DDR DIMM)

 

[imported_Stew]

lol. I've got a 5200rpm hard drive

 

[imported_myst]

arent hds the bottleneck for most modern systems?

 

[JackMDS]

LOL, currently the main difference is that SATA is considered Cool.

As you know what is cool goes.

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