serial ata vs eide

[rkshack]

Is the price increase for serial ata worth it or do you get basically the same performace in the eide version. I am going to get a hitachi deskstar but trying to decide between eide and serial ata.

 

[Crashman]

Same performance for EIDE and SATA.

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[rkshack]

So I guess only benefit to sata is smaller cables.

 

[Crashman]

Hmm, other benefits...
Well, WD offers a 10,000RPM drive in SATA that they don't offer in EIDE, but it's still slow enough that it wouldn't make a difference.

SATA is now 150MB/s, so I guess if you had a RAID array and some REALLY fast drives you might see some difference.

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[Crashman]

Hmm, other benefits...
Well, WD offers a 10,000RPM drive in SATA that they don't offer in EIDE, but it's still slow enough that it wouldn't make a difference.

SATA is now 150MB/s, so I guess if you had a RAID array and some REALLY fast drives you might see some difference.

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[lunitic]

Well, there are some other advantages. Like
- hot swappable
- no master/slave jumpers
- no devices conflicting / contending on the same channel
- longer cable (external drives)
- some scsi-like enhancements like command queuing

Some of these are included in the SATA standard but not yet available in current controllers/drives.

 

[rkshack]

For the 15-20 dollar difference would you get the sata vs eide.

 

[Crashman]

-no master/slave jumpers

That's putting a positive spin on the truth, which is:
-supports only one drive per cable

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[Crashman]

Unless they were the same price or I had so many EIDE devices I needed to use the onboard SATA connections, I'd go with whatever was cheapest.

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