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MjM2   07-03-2005 at 07:22:21 AM

I was once looking through the paper, and i saw this ad for a segate hard drive. The ad was seomthing like -

Segate
200gb 8mb/ SATA 8mb $139/$149

Whats the difference?

Curiosity was framed. Stupidity killed the cat.
(i know it has nothing to do with comps, but i think its funny ^^" )

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MjM2   07-03-2005 at 09:45:23 AM
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whats ide and sata?

Curiosity was framed. Stupidity killed the cat.
(i know it has nothing to do with comps, but i think its funny ^^" )

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Rob423   07-03-2005 at 06:15:14 PM
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lol ok whewwww..

IDE = OLD and BIG RIBBON CABLES lol pretty much your old standard.

SATA = extremely thin, flexible, a pleasure to have in case wire with nice small connectors. pretty much the new standard ..

there's also SATA II... not up to date on the difference between sataI/II but im sure it's nothing huge.

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200gb WD 8mb cache..
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Anonymous   07-04-2005 at 05:07:39 PM
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Diffrence is 300mb/sec vs 150.HotSwap. Other enhancement include NCQ and such but might be avaluible on SATAI...



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Anonymous   07-04-2005 at 05:08:08 PM
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Your motherboard need to support SATA, any boards bought less than 2 years ago should have them. Otherwise you need a pci card wich is not desirebale.

Performance wise its not big, just the cable are so much more fun to work with as Rob said

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MjM2   07-05-2005 at 07:36:40 AM
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ah ok cool, thanks a lot

Curiosity was framed. Stupidity killed the cat.
(i know it has nothing to do with comps, but i think its funny ^^" )

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