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I agree with Wong. I have a WD 80 gig PATA, rotation speed 7200 with
8 mg cache AND a WD 160 gig SATA, rotation speed 7200 with 8 mg cache.
In the various tests I've run PATA transfers at approx 45 mg/sec none
burst while SATA transfers at approx 34 mg/sec none burst.
SATA is no longer has my booting partition but it does liberate my
VIA & IDE controllers. The smaller cable is also nice.
Burst speed of 150 mg/sec is nice on paper but not in a practical
sence.
My 2 cents worth (Canadian)
Locust
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:58:13 +0800, Stephen SM WONG
<wongsm@netvigator.com> wrote:
>No, SATA drive is not necessarily faster than ATA (PATA)
>drive. The physical design, ie. how fast is the platters
>rotates, and how fast the servo motors move the read/write
>across the platters, matters. So, with similar physical
>design SATA vs PATA drive, they perform very much the same
>in real system. Most hard disk vendors produce both SATA
>and PATA drives basing on the same physical platforms, and
>the performance difference is minimal.
>
>What SATA drive will give you is:
>1) Thinner data cable, so better air circulation within
>chasis.
>2) Potentially to have hot-plug capability, but whether
>hot-plug is supported depends on a lot of things, like
>chipset design, driver support and OS support, etc.
>
>My 2 cents.
>
>Stephen Wong @ Hong Kong
>
>On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Peter B. wrote:
>
>> I need to add a new hard drive to my ASUS p4p800 deluxe machine. It
>> currently has an ATA 100 drive. In the real world, are the SATA drives
>> that much faster than an ATA drive? I know that they are capable of
>> operating a 150 MBps, but does that translate into a drive that is 50%
>> faster than my current drive?
>>
>> Are there any other advantages or disadvantages to SATA drives?
>>
>> Pete
>>
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