SATA or not?

Beezle Warburton · **Joined:** Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:17 pm **Posts:** 2242

Do you think adding a SATA controller and drive might improve a computer's performance?

I know switching from UDMA 33 to UDMA 100 made a lot of difference, but wasn't sure if SATA was that much of a step up or not.

ZATZAi · **Joined:** Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:34 am **Posts:** 139

SATA from IDE? It makes a difference yes, the rate at which your drive spins and how densely the data is stored will make the most difference on seek time. A fatter pipe like SATA will make a difference for transfers, like if your constantly moving a lot of data.

It shouldn't be a *huge* improvement, but depending on what you do it could be rather noticeable.

Cale Vinson · **Joined:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:44 am **Posts:** 755

Beezle Warburton wrote:

Do you think adding a SATA controller and drive might improve a computer's performance?

I know switching from UDMA 33 to UDMA 100 made a lot of difference, but wasn't sure if SATA was that much of a step up or not.

I have no idea Beezle.

I'm only here to regress completely to my childhood, and, in petulant revenge, respond to your response to my thread over at SC.

Are you ready?

Here it comes ......

Oh crap, I can't bring myself to do it. Please imagine the most devastingly biting LOL Cat picture appears in the space below.

<insert virtual LOL Cat picture here>

My apologies to the rest of DoD for the brutal nature of this post, but sometimes one just has to push-back.

Beezle Warburton · **Joined:** Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:17 pm **Posts:** 2242

Cale Vinson wrote:

Oh crap, I can't bring myself to do it. Please imagine the most devastingly biting LOL Cat picture appears in the space below.

<insert virtual LOL Cat picture here>

Thou dost wound me to the quick
To turn thy forked tongue and scathing wit
Upon thine very own siblings
Dost reveal what most unpleasant times
That circumstances have wrought.
Shall we attempt to turn the hand of fate
From our fevered brows
And once again be at familial peace?
Better to turn our efforts
Against those that would oppose us
Than to let passion reign o'er
Until we doth wrestle in the dust
Like as to angry dogs
Unwilling to share in the partaking
Of a stingy scrap of meat.

Uncle Fester · **Joined:** Tue Aug 21, 2007 7:12 am **Posts:** 195

ZATZAi wrote:

SATA from IDE? It makes a difference yes, the rate at which your drive spins and how densely the data is stored will make the most difference on seek time. A fatter pipe like SATA will make a difference for transfers, like if your constantly moving a lot of data.

It shouldn't be a *huge* improvement, but depending on what you do it could be rather noticeable.

what about performance in games such as...I dunno...WOW?

Tabby Catteneo · **Joined:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:41 am **Posts:** 147

ZATZAi · **Joined:** Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:34 am **Posts:** 139

Uncle Fester wrote:

ZATZAi wrote:

SATA from IDE? It makes a difference yes, the rate at which your drive spins and how densely the data is stored will make the most difference on seek time. A fatter pipe like SATA will make a difference for transfers, like if your constantly moving a lot of data.

It shouldn't be a *huge* improvement, but depending on what you do it could be rather noticeable.

what about performance in games such as...I dunno...WOW?

Depends on how often your PC needs to access the HDD cache and load it into RAM. Having more RAM is better than having a faster connection for the HDD. But if you have to load stuff from a CD or HDD often (Live every area or level loading) then having those drives on SATA would help yes. With most modern drives the bottleneck is not how faster it can read the data off the medium but how thick the pipe is to deliver said data.

Tabby Catteneo · **Joined:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:41 am **Posts:** 147

... soooo.. I was actually on topic? >.>

:tabby:

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