Sata 1 drive bottleneck

[gamerguy1]

Would an 80gb Sata1 HDD slow down a 720BE AM2 x3 proc and a 260gtx or 4890 video card?

 

[saint19]

Usually not, but if you can, try with a SATA2 or SSD.

 

[gamerguy1]

Thanks.

If it doesnt make a difference, then I can save the money until I can afford a HDD or SSD that I want.

 

[kamel5547]

It doesn't make a difference. SATA I will handle the throughput of rotary platter hard drives. Sata 3 Gbps and 6 Gbps only matter if you have an SSD. While the technology of the drive does matter the connection speed doesn't if the two are equivalent.

Drives vary widely in transfer rates, the more important items are: RPM, seek time, you cna also look at burst and sequential read speeds but generally these are less important than the first two.

Think of the various SATA standards as advertising bikes that can go "15 MPH, 30 MPH, 60 MPH", you still have to have a person that can pedal at that rate to reach it

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Would an 80gb Sata1 HDD slow down a 720BE AM2 x3 proc and a 260gtx or 4890 video card?

Yes.

It is the old 80gb drive its self that would slow down the system though and not the SATA 1.

Kamel5547 is right about throughput but newer hard drives have improved much more than just the SATA interface. A new high platter density 7200rpm drive will be several times faster than an old 80gb drive. Even something like a WD Green series will be much faster much less something designed for speed like the WD Blacks, Samsung SpinPoint F3 or Seagate 7200.12s.

You will have much slower access and load times with the old 80gb.