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Serial ATA Performance on a Budget
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Wow, I thought that being able to get 160GB of SATA storage with a 5 year warranty for under $100 would provoke a little more enthusiasm!
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That IS very impressive. I wish I had read it before I purchased a 160GB PATA HD. Oh well. One question, though. Can I mix SATA and PATA HD's if the motherboard supports it?
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Yes, all boards that have SATA still have PATA, and the two can be mixed. The latest nVidia RAID controllers even allow you to mix them in a RAID array!
Set whichever controller (or drive) you want bootable in BIOS. With my Soyo board it was a pain to find that setting, hehe.
I just saw some company selling the Seagate drive for $76 last week, but that was a limited time special.
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What's the advantage to SATA Hard Drives ??
Causing some confusion re: IDE type mixed on same MB, etc...
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Here are the main advantages I remember from the SATA people:
1.) Thinner cables
What they don't tell you: This also means small, fragile connectors.
2.) No Master/Slave jumper confusion
What they don't tell you: This means 1 cable per drive, twice as many cables for 2 drives.
New models of SATA drives and controllers offer a new technology that can re-arrange the order in which files are transfered for a small performance gain. It's called Native Command Queing (NCQ) and has to be supported by both parts in order to use it.
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Thanks for the info....
A friend of mine is struggling with this and was required to get a separate control card for his new Dell to support a second drive with IDE.
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