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jimsathome
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Team,
I've been a member for quite a while (silent mostly - this is the first night I've posted here...) and I've finally got a question worthy of discussion. I've been playing around with PC's for some time and I'm a decent competent user who's handy enough to specify / configure / fix, or build a box. I seem to have become the IT guy for family, friends, and coworkers. (All free - must be something wrong with my character.. -but you get what you pay for...)
I'm planning to take the plunge and get myself a decent box capable enough to do some video editing. (Family Super VHS Movies to DVD.) I have most of the pieces picked out (but the longer I wait they move around a bit ).
I just picked up a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus ATA 133 80 Gig 7200 RPM Hard Drive as I had a suspected HD failure on one of my boxes that turned out to be a CMOS Virus and not a drive issue. (It stopped the Bios from seeing the IDE Channel. Came darn close to tossing out the Asus Motherboard )
Anyway, I was contemplating putting in a SATA HD on the new box as I'd seen the hype about SATA being so much faster than (P-for Parallel) ATA drives. Of course you'd want to start out with the fastest box you could afford as the tech moves so quick it becomes obsolete at an ever increasing rate.
I try to be diligent in my reseach before buying, so off I went looking at the advertisements like the one at the Maxtor Product page at:
hxxp://www.maxtor.com/en/products/ata/desktop/index.htm
On the right side it says in a red box SATA with 1.5 Gb /sec. Right there I'm sold that's an order on magnitude better than an (P)ATA 100 Mb / sec or even the Maxtor exclusive ATA 133 Mb/sec. (if you use the right Motherboard or IDE PCI Card). So as a final check I download the specification sheets to find out it's only 150 Mb /sec. Now I'm getting confused
So I download their White Paper on SATA only to find out they hope to migrate upwards, but the 150 will be the only offering until mid 2005 -and then it only moves towards 300 by 2006. So I diligently call Maxtor's support (they are Great!!) and they advise the web must be a misprint or error!! There is little difference in the speeds of the drives.
Do you think there's a good technical reason to move to SATA ? I know it will consume less power (don't care); and the cabling can be positioned prettier in the box so guys with side windows can ooh & ahh at their box - especially with the funny blues lights that are so common. (really don't care!!) Is the a real perfomance hit ? If so can you point me to the documentation ?
Thanks for the assist.
Regards,
Jim
I've been a member for quite a while (silent mostly - this is the first night I've posted here...) and I've finally got a question worthy of discussion. I've been playing around with PC's for some time and I'm a decent competent user who's handy enough to specify / configure / fix, or build a box. I seem to have become the IT guy for family, friends, and coworkers. (All free - must be something wrong with my character.. -but you get what you pay for...)
I'm planning to take the plunge and get myself a decent box capable enough to do some video editing. (Family Super VHS Movies to DVD.) I have most of the pieces picked out (but the longer I wait they move around a bit ).
I just picked up a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus ATA 133 80 Gig 7200 RPM Hard Drive as I had a suspected HD failure on one of my boxes that turned out to be a CMOS Virus and not a drive issue. (It stopped the Bios from seeing the IDE Channel. Came darn close to tossing out the Asus Motherboard )
Anyway, I was contemplating putting in a SATA HD on the new box as I'd seen the hype about SATA being so much faster than (P-for Parallel) ATA drives. Of course you'd want to start out with the fastest box you could afford as the tech moves so quick it becomes obsolete at an ever increasing rate.
I try to be diligent in my reseach before buying, so off I went looking at the advertisements like the one at the Maxtor Product page at:
hxxp://www.maxtor.com/en/products/ata/desktop/index.htm
On the right side it says in a red box SATA with 1.5 Gb /sec. Right there I'm sold that's an order on magnitude better than an (P)ATA 100 Mb / sec or even the Maxtor exclusive ATA 133 Mb/sec. (if you use the right Motherboard or IDE PCI Card). So as a final check I download the specification sheets to find out it's only 150 Mb /sec. Now I'm getting confused
So I download their White Paper on SATA only to find out they hope to migrate upwards, but the 150 will be the only offering until mid 2005 -and then it only moves towards 300 by 2006. So I diligently call Maxtor's support (they are Great!!) and they advise the web must be a misprint or error!! There is little difference in the speeds of the drives.
Do you think there's a good technical reason to move to SATA ? I know it will consume less power (don't care); and the cabling can be positioned prettier in the box so guys with side windows can ooh & ahh at their box - especially with the funny blues lights that are so common. (really don't care!!) Is the a real perfomance hit ? If so can you point me to the documentation ?
Thanks for the assist.
Regards,
Jim