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Wondering about SATA...

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jere01

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I'm new to this whole Serial ATA thing and I was wondering about a couple of things.

Can you use regular 7200 rpm ATA drives on the SATA system? (is there any point?)
Can you run a 20 gig SATA HD (for your OS and applications) along with 2 ATA HDs simultaneously?
Should I be looking at motherboards that have this SATA ability for a home computer or is it not worth it?

Thanks guys!
 
SATA alone will provide no performance increase. You can use regular ATA drives on the SATA controller, but you need adaptors that are like $25 each and performance may be even worse than on a regular IDE controller. IDE and SATA can coincide without a problem. My opinion is if you are looking at a MOBO that comes with SATA and a HD that comes with it and isnt much more expensive, than go for it. For most purposes there isnt much of a reason for it quite yet.
 
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