I've been reading about SATA for what seems like forever.
Does anyone actually have it?
I've been reading about SATA for what seems like forever.
Does anyone actually have it?
Yep, came with the new system I built in September. I don't know that I could answer any detailed questions other than "works fine, haven't had any problems, and things are really fast."
My new MB came with the capability, but alas, my old harddrives did not. From what I read, the speed gain is negligible. (Not challenging Kevin's assessment).
I'm planning to upgrade to a Seagate SATA drive next month. SATA because, what the hell, my mobo supports it and has all the cables. Seagate because they're supposed to be hella quiet. But I need to get a bigger hard drive. It's just scary how fast my 80GB is filling up. Of course, I use it to digitall record TV, and until I get a DVD-R burner, they've getting archived on hard disk.
Are you sure you didn't leave the 'N' off the end?
- Alan
I have it in my iDEQ cube, but I'm not using it. When I bought the quiet 8MB cache 160GB drive for it, Seagate offered a 3-year warranty on the IDE version, and a 1-year warranty on the SATA version. So I went IDE.
No, but plan on gettting it though in all my new boxes.
--- Alan
Oh no you're probably right about the speed gain. I was just saying everything is so fast I haven't had cause to even think about its effect one way or the other.My new MB came with the capability, but alas, my old harddrives did not. From what I read, the speed gain is negligible. (Not challenging Kevin's assessment).
Nope, still using SCSI for all my drives.
I think my motherboard supports SATA (Serial ATA, right?) but I'm using SCSI-160 drives as well.
Gonna be upgrading my system now that I have a new job (go go impulse buying!), plan on getting two 80GB SATA drives to RAID.
I have two SATA drives in my system. The data and power connectors are much easier to handle than the 80-pin ATA133 and 4-pin Molex plugs.
There's also the side-effect of better air flow in the PC case - unless you're already using rounded ATA cables, but I wouldn't assume every PC users has 'em.
Friends don't let friends use rounded ATA cables.Originally Posted by Yuki Katase
Every other wire on an 80-pin cable is a ground whose purpose is to absorb leaks from the adjacent signal wires. What happens when you bunch all those cables together randomly inside a circular conduit? CRC errors that slow your hard drive data transfer rate, that's what.
Fold your cables out of the way, but please do not use rounded ATA cables.
Interesting. Thanks for the tip!
Hey, are you the guy who wrote the Command & Conquer/Red Alert strat guides?
My new motherboard has this capability but I'm using my old IDE harddrive.
However, I'd like to know if it's possible to add a second HD to the SATA connection but still keep the old one to avoid needing to transfer everything or changing the OS from Win 98 SE(which I like)??
Assuming you mean "I have one hard drive plugged into an ATA100 connection and I want to plug another hard drive into a S-ATA connection", you shouldn't run into any problems.
In fact on my system I have 2 SATAs plugged into both available connections, and 2 ATA100s sharing the primary P-IDE channel.
Roger, I believe, is indeed the man. Those FAQs were classic.
--- Alan
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