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SATA Controller + SATA Drive
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I'm finally about to upgrade my rather slow WD 40GB HD (5200 RPM). My PC will take an ATA (UDMA/100) drive, my question is whether it's worth buying a PCI SATA controller and a SATA drive, or will that be waster in my ageing 2700d Celeron based system? Thanks, Nick |
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nick_nw wrote:
Hi, I'm finally about to upgrade my rather slow WD 40GB HD (5200 RPM). My PC will take an ATA (UDMA/100) drive, my question is whether it's worth buying a PCI SATA controller and a SATA drive, or will that be waster in my ageing 2700d Celeron based system? Thanks, Nick I haven't seen any claims that SATA 1 drives are noticably faster than UDMA drives, and that is also our experience. I think it would be an additional $70 (5\$50 for a SATA card and $20 premium on the drive) for no purpose. Daniel Feenberg |
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nick_nw wrote:
I'm finally about to upgrade my rather slow WD 40GB HD (5200 RPM). My PC will take an ATA (UDMA/100) drive, my question is whether it's worth buying a PCI SATA controller and a SATA drive, or will that be waster in my ageing 2700d Celeron based system? Yes, it wont achieve anything with the current system. It does give you more future tho, you can more easily move that new drive to a new system in the future if you go the SATA route. Many new systems only have a single ATA port, two drives, and one will normally be used by the DVD burner. |
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Previously nick_nw wrote:
Hi, I'm finally about to upgrade my rather slow WD 40GB HD (5200 RPM). My PC will take an ATA (UDMA/100) drive, my question is whether it's worth buying a PCI SATA controller and a SATA drive, or will that be waster in my ageing 2700d Celeron based system? For a single-drive system, there will not be a speed improvement. If you would otherwise put two IDE drives on one channel, you may see some improvement, but only because each SATA interface has its own channel. Arno |
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"Arno Wagner" wrote in message
Previously nick_nw wrote: Hi, I'm finally about to upgrade my rather slow WD 40GB HD (5200 RPM). My PC will take an ATA (UDMA/100) drive, my question is whether it's worth buying a PCI SATA controller and a SATA drive, or will that be waster in my ageing 2700d Celeron based system? For a single-drive system, there will not be a speed improvement. If you would otherwise put two IDE drives on one channel, Which is perfectly fine when using one at a time. Even two, as long as they are not both reading. you may see some improvement, but only because each SATA interface has its own channel. Not necessarily. What matters if it has it's own logically independent controller chips. It may just be a legacy IDE controller with bridge chips and have the same restrictions as a regular ATA controller/hostbus adapter. Arno |
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SATA Controller + SATA Drive
nick_nw wrote: Hi, I'm finally about to upgrade my rather slow WD 40GB HD (5200 RPM). My PC will take an ATA (UDMA/100) drive, my question is whether it's worth buying a PCI SATA controller and a SATA drive, or will that be waster in my ageing 2700d Celeron based system? Thanks, Nick Thanks for all the replies. I'm just going to go with a new ATA. I don't need to worry about the 'future' too much as this is just a stop gap until a new PC next year (at which point current system goes to daughter). Best Nick |
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