How much of a performance difference is there between IDE and SATA ?

the drives can BURST (from the cache) faster. it can't do a surface SUSTAINED read of more than 70-90MB/s, which is one of the numbers that matters the most for a HD's performance. there are a couple of different figures to be concerned with regarding a HD's performance: burst, sustained, random data transfer, and seek time.

the improved speed in his original post though will come from the change of 7200->10KRPM. faster seek times can make a noticeable difference in most things, including even just booting.

but i don't think that's the problem he's describing is coming from his hd being slow.
 
IDE is faster when doing alot of read/write operations. SATA is only faster in one direction at a time sustained. Also SATA break much more frequently then IDE. The only advantage SATA has is a smaller cable. Get an IDE with a large Cache and a rounded cable.
 
ZOD said:
IDE is faster when doing alot of read/write operations. SATA is only faster in one direction at a time sustained. Also SATA break much more frequently then IDE.
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(technical) proof that you're not talking out of your ass?
 
ZOD said:
IDE is faster when doing alot of read/write operations. SATA is only faster in one direction at a time sustained. Also SATA break much more frequently then IDE. The only advantage SATA has is a smaller cable. Get an IDE with a large Cache and a rounded cable.
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what?
 
ZOD said:
IDE is faster when doing alot of read/write operations. SATA is only faster in one direction at a time sustained. Also SATA break much more frequently then IDE. The only advantage SATA has is a smaller cable. Get an IDE with a large Cache and a rounded cable.
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IDE (aka PATA) and SATA hard drives are nearly physically identical bud. They are both IDE. The drive itself that you choose is more important than PATA vs SATA. Even bursting, it'd be very rare and extremely unnoticeable to go from 133MB/s to 150MB/s. Of course that will change with time as HDs get faster, but for the moment there really is no difference.
 
I am glad that TW is a wealth of information about hardware.

Well, most of you guys know what you're talking about at least ;)
 
IDE -> SATA will give you a slight increase, but wont make a HUGE difference.

What will make a huge difference is the 7,200rpm -> 10,000rpm
 
what kind of idiot wrote that article? those are two different drives. of course they'll perform differently.
 
there's basically zero difference between PATA & SATA HDDs. yeah there's more bandwith there, but HDDs cant even fill the bandwith of the PATA spec so increasing it is useless.

think of it like this: you drive a car with a top speed of, let's say, 50mph. current speed limits in your state are 70mph, so if they bump the speed limit up to 100 is it gonna do anything? no, because your car still maxes out at 50.
 
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