Re: replacement drive: SATA or PATA?
- From: Johannes <johs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:26:16 GMT
Odie Ferrous wrote:
>
> Iain Robinson wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys. I'm looking to replace an old Maxtor drive that's about to die
> > and decided on a Seagate ST3120026A (120GB 8mb 'Barracuda 7200.7 Plus').
> > It's only ATA100 but I know that ATA133 wouldn't really make any
> > difference so I'm not losing any sleep over that - the price is right.
> >
> > Before I order it I remembered that my motherboard has SATA connectors
> > (it's a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro - nForce 2 chipset) and wondered if it was
> > really worth getting an equivalent specced SATA version? All my other
> > drives are ATA and I have no desire to setup a RAID. If the actual drive
> > has the same spec will the SATA interface make any difference? And what
> > about NCQ - does your mobo have to support that? Looking around there
> > doesn't seem to really be a consensus whether SATA is really any better
> > than PATA, until SATA 2 comes along at least - is that your experiences?
> >
> > Any pointers appreciated.
> >
> > Iain
>
> Your choice is one of the very best on the planet as far as hard drives
> are concerned. Apart from certain SCSI drives.
>
> I wouldn't necessarily feel the need to move to SATA; most of my
> recovery machines boot off IDE drives because they have less "anomalies"
> than SATA drives.
I am led to believe that many current SATA drives are not native SATA,
but are PATA drives with an onboard converter chip, an exception is
Seagate? Is there anything in this?
.
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