Re: Have ATA, is adding an SATA to it troublesome?
- From: Jay B <jayB@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 15:07:13 -0400
i recently upgraded a hard drive on a 8300 from pata to sata and it was noticeably faster. of course i went to a 5 year warranty seagate baracuda at 7200rpm, not sure what speed the craptor was running at.
at the time, i thought i had a choice in the bios which order to boot from and i thought i saw sata and pata listed separately, so you can change the order to fit your needs. also, i noticed on other upgrades that if i add a promise sata controller to a computer, then the bios shows that promise card in the boot order also, and lets you specify its priority. very nice feature, but perhaps this feature is only on computers with the most current bios.
my rule of thumb, i buy sata from now on if the MB has native support for it. i dont usually add a sata card unless there is a need for it.
sata also makes sense for the older computers because you cant really buy (or its not cost effective ) to buy smaller drives, and the larger drives may not be properly supported, and adding sata seems to get around these problems. thats if the person insists on upgrading an old computer. i now push all customers to a newer faster computer anyway, i prove to them its more cost effective.
Thomas G. Marshall wrote:
dim 8300 / P4 3.0 GHz MT / 800mhz fsb / yada / yada / more yada....
I need to add an HD to my system which already has an 80 gig ATA running on it. I'm pondering buying an SATA drive.
Questions:
1. Given the SATA chipset in the 8300 (I think it's the first SATA offerred by Dell), is the SATA /better throughput/ than ATA?
2. Is adding an SATA advisable at this point? (Are there compatibility issues, etc.)
3. I'm assuming that with SATA it no longer matters what is placed in what order in terms of speed and hampering another drives speed. Is that true? Actually, I've heard also that with ATA it hasn't been an issue for some time, so this is a bit of a useless question....I think.
Thanks!
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