IDE or SATA?

[Indybird]

Im just curious, without accounting for RPMs and RAID, is SATA really so much faster than IDE that you can notice a dramatic difference?

[Cool1Net6]

PATA (IDE) ends at 133 MB/second.
SATA I has a speed of 150 MB/second.
SATA II has a speed of 300 MB/second.

"You will only experience a performance increase in circumstances where you are accessing data on the drive. Games will not benefit other than with quicker load times. Applications such as rendering will only benefit if the data files being worked on (and the resultant calculations) are too large to be held in system memory."

-Cool-

[Indybird]

First of all, I like the sound of quicker load times...

Second, I've seen hard drives called "SATA 3.0Gb/s", do those go at 3 Gb/second?

[Silenced_Coyote]

No they do not. I just means that data transfer speed has a higher limit. In reality, speeds won't go near that high. As long as you have SATA, that will be good enough.

Oh, the load times aren't that much quicker. You might get .5 seconds faster in some games. It isn't a huge difference, not like you are getting a minute faster than everyone else.

[Omega]

gah gah gah gah.

Datarate's don't mean crap if the hard drive itself can't read at the proper speed. I have SATA II and my drive can theoretically send data at 150gbps, however the drive read speed is only somewhere in the neighborhood of 300-600mbps, so speed depends mainly on the RPM.

btw, Cool, it's GB/s, not MB/s.

[Kaky]

Definetly sata but what is it with the 15k rpm does it exist ???

[Silenced_Coyote]

I know that Seagate makes a 15k RPM drive called the Cheetah but it isn't SATA, it is SCSI.

[Airbozo]

I know that Seagate makes a 15k RPM drive called the Cheetah but it isn't SATA, it is SCSI.

I have a pair of those in my workstation here at work and they are a little noisy but data transfer is noticibley faster than sata.

[nil8]

No you won't notice a huge difference. You will get shorter time copying large chunks of data or if you're processing very large files. Other than that, not really.

SATA is way, way better for airflow though.

[MitaPi]

Here is a 15,000 RPM Internal Hard Drive....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822116154



I would much rather have 2 of these 10,000 RPM Raptors with a WINDOW.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136011