is there any speed difference between 7200rpm ide and sata?

Violineb · September 30th, 2003

I noticed that you can get WD drives now in both SATA and IDE interface, my only question is. Aren't they the exact same drives just with different wires? Since they are both 7200 RPM with 8mb buffer do they perform exactly the same? And if you had a choice which would you choose considering the $10 or so price difference.

JAZ · September 30th, 2003

Sata is slighty faster, sata's thoretical limit is 150mbps vs ide 133mbps but theres not much difference in real world performance..

GSDragoon · September 30th, 2003

The WD SE's are ATA100 actually.

GKort · September 30th, 2003

if you want a noticable difference between HDD speeds get SCSI...or degrade your ass to USB..

D.D. · September 30th, 2003

LOL!!!!

Actually, if you get raid 0 with dual raptors, you'll install xp in 10 mins

GSDragoon · October 1st, 2003

Your still limited by the CD ROM' speed. Even a slow HD is faster than a fast CD ROM. I don't think it would install that fast.

S.SubZero · October 1st, 2003

Quote:

Originally Posted by GKort

if you want a noticable difference between HDD speeds get SCSI...or degrade your ass to USB..

SCSI itself isn't considerably faster than EIDE anymore. SCSI handles multiple requests a bit better, but otherwise there's not much advantage. The kick comes from SCSI drives simply having 10k and 15k drives on the high end. For a gaming machine or a simple productivity box, EIDE is fine.

D.D. · October 1st, 2003

>Your still limited by the CD ROM' speed. Even a slow HD is faster than a fast CD ROM. I don't think it would install that fast.

you should try it....the actual file copying from the cd to the HD takes a jiffy, afterwards it runs on the HD....trust me, I just formated yesterday (tried to update the nforce chipset drivers to the mwarheads one....turns out the sw ide drivers corrupt the harddrive....)

Chinoz · October 2nd, 2003

SATA uses mini cables
Speed difference? I can't really remember... read an article abt it some months back.will try to find it

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D.D. band Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: HERE Posts: 4,575	Re: is there any speed difference between 7200rpm ide and sata? >Your still limited by the CD ROM' speed. Even a slow HD is faster than a fast CD ROM. I don't think it would install that fast. you should try it....the actual file copying from the cd to the HD takes a jiffy, afterwards it runs on the HD....trust me, I just formated yesterday (tried to update the nforce chipset drivers to the mwarheads one....turns out the sw ide drivers corrupt the harddrive....) __________________ 1. Small, Cheap, Powerful - you can have only two 2. Everytime you engineer something foolproof, the world comes up with a better idiot. 3. 「学問とは虚栄である。」 The PS3 Cell Processor Explained Page, IBM Research's Introduction to Cell Multiprocessor and Cell Processor Programming Guide

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