- SATA vs PATA?
- Posted by gecko on February 22nd, 2008
What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA burner?
Thanks
Gecko
- Posted by GT on February 22nd, 2008
"gecko" <alpha@olympus.net> wrote in message
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If you have a motherboard with free SATA connectors, and no free EIDE
connectors!
- Posted by GT on February 22nd, 2008
"GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Plus - hot swapping.
- Posted by John McGaw on February 22nd, 2008
GT wrote:
neater if one obsesses over such things. Plus no master/slave jumpers to
fiddle with.
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- Posted by GT on February 22nd, 2008
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You do get round IDE cables.
- Posted by gecko on February 22nd, 2008
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:59:21 -0000, "GT"
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No speed advantage???
Gecko
- Posted by CBFalconer on February 22nd, 2008
GT wrote:
Each of which mounts only one drive, rather than two for PATA
(IDE). The round cables can be dressed slightly better. There is
no practical performance advantage.
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- Posted by John McGaw on February 22nd, 2008
gecko wrote:
No speed advantage I can imagine with an optical drive -- the data rate
is so slow that PATA would have no trouble keeping up. Even the fastest
SATA hard drives aren't all that much faster than regular ATA-100 can
handle and optical drives are not nearly so fast as that. IIRC a 16X DVD
is < 25mB/s and that isn't likely to be sustained.
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- Posted by John McGaw on February 22nd, 2008
GT wrote:
Yeah, you can always get round IDE cables although I've never much liked
them -- have had bad luck with them a few times. But you'd still have a
far larger cross-section that that of a SATA cable and you'll never find
long ones for neat routing as you can with SATA. I'm not always one to
embrace changing hardware standards but in the case of SATA I think that
they got it pretty close to right although the overly cheap connector
construction still leaves a bit to be desired.
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- Posted by DevilsPGD on February 22nd, 2008
In message <1rstr3p3vh449s6v81vibt7986mjcgm6e8@4ax.com> gecko
<alpha@olympus.net> wrote:
No. Few, if any, consumer optical drives on the market can exceed
ATA-100's bus speed. There is no performance benefit increasing
non-bottlenecking components.
- Posted by kony on February 23rd, 2008
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:04:47 GMT, gecko <alpha@olympus.net>
wrote:
That newer motherboards have more SATA than PATA ports so
unless you plan on having a lot of SATA HDDs, it will have
more future support. On the other hand if adding it to an
existing system it may be more important what that system
supports. As others mentioned optical drives don't benefit
from SATA so if you have a limited # of SATA ports it would
be better to put SATA hard drives on those than buy any new
PATA HDDs.
