sata or ata?

[sherpadog]

good day guys,

am planning to buy a second harddrive and was thinking of getting a SATA harddrive. but my motherboard doesn't have any SATA connection so i am left with the option of buying a SATA controller. is this a good investment? or would i rather buy an 7200 rpm ATA drive? btw, am doing video editing.

my specs:
512 ddr 400
Athlon XP 2500
ECS N2U-400 mobo
Seagate 120 Barracuda

thanks..

 

[folken]

for video editing you would benifit greatly from having some drives in a raid. A guy did some video editing on my comp once because he had to get it done fast and he said my machine made it VERY fast. I have raid0 36gb raptors so it is kinda fast
Just get a massive hd for storing your videos when u finish em and work on em off of a raid set. You will see a difference. Sata is like cheap scsi so if you want speed go for it.

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[blah]

""Sata is like cheap scsi so if you want speed go for it""

Not really a true statement, ATA and SATA is the same thing as far as speed goes, RPMs do make difference though. I wonder where you got the idea of a cheap SCSI. As far as convinience goes, yeah, SATA has thiner connectors, otherwise.. they are the same


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[jammydodger]

I think what he probably meant was "the WD raptor series of drives offer similar performance and warrenty to some SCSI drives"

 

[blah]

in that case SATA has nothing to do with it, the speed is "included" as RPM package in that "perticullar" drive

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