Is it worth it for me to go with SATA?

[drudo]

I'm in the market for a new hard disk. I'm getting a 120 GB seagate barracuda. If I wanted to get the SATA version I would need to buy a SATA PCI card since my mobo doesn't have SATA ports. So I was thinking I would just go with IDE again. Do you think it's worth it for me, as a gamer, to pay the extra for the PCI SATA card? Is it really that much faster?

 

[blah]

No
Its not faster
No

PS: I have SATA controllers on board, but I still pleffer IDE, caz there is no "translation" loop on it.


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[jammydodger]

Translation loop?

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Waterchill KT12-L30
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[jim552]

blah,

Are you refering to the situation that MOST SATA drives have a bridge chip that converts IDE to SATA?

If so, what do you care about that? I don't think ANYONE has ever said that this affects performance?

I prefer SATA, but ONLY because it's going to be the future standard and I want to push it along as much as possible so that the full potential is realized as soon as possible. (Yes, I know it's a "standard" now, but I referring more to being a sales standard. I think the end of 2005 we will have seen, or will see on the horizon, the time that SATA will surpass IDE in hard drive sales.)

 

[jammydodger]

The seagate drive he wanted to buy doesnt even use a bridge chip anyway.

<font color=blue>P4c 2.6@3.25
512Mb PC4000
2x120Gb 7200.7 in RAID0
Waterchill KT12-L30
Abit AI7
Radeon 9800Pro
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[blah]

haa? You want to "push it"? Where? Overclock? Higher FSB? Overspin it? What are you talking about?

PS.. from <A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20030204/serial_ata-17.html" target="_new">Toms</A>:

"The downside of the conversion is a performance hit"

"At present, our view is: Serial ATA is superior, but not faster than current parallel ATA solutions"

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[drudo]

I think i've decided to go with the SATA version since my future motherboard will have spots for it. Oh well an extra $30 aint nothin I guess. thanks.

 

[blah]

You'r da boss, I just unswered the question if it was any faster, otherwize it is more convinient from the connection (?) point of view as it is "much easier" to connect smaller cables ;$>

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[drudo]

Well thanks blah for your input. I had a feeling it wasn't much faster.

 

[VIT]

If you have used all the IDE connector, why not consider a SATA card for expansion ? The pricing for SATA card and IDE card is about the same.

If there is still a IDE connector, you don¡¦t need to buy a too fast HDD. Connecting a new HDD together with old HDD/CD-ROM certainly will reduce performance.