Economics of SATA hard drive
~misfit~ wrote:
Merrill P. L. Worthington wrote:
Warra wrote:
Am in the UK. Running an old system which works quite well: Via 266
mobo with Duron 1800 processor and 768MB of SD-RAM.
Will upgrade the system when I need the extra power. Currently need
to add to my data storage. Don't want to get Parallel IDE (PATA)
because newer mobos will support only SATA.
Can get a 250GB Samsung hard drive (from Komplett) for about £60 inc
delivery which is a real bargain.
But a PCI SATA adaptor by Sunsway from the same dealer costs £19. It
supports 2 SATA devices. That is definitely not a bargain as it's
one- third of the price of the 250 GB drive! What a swizz!
What viable alternatives do I have?
Consider getting a PATA drive of whatever size fits your needs. When
its time to move to another motherboard, look for one that will
support the hard drive. If it only has one PATA interface, it may be
possible to use it for both the hard drive and a DVD drive. Since
DVDs typically runs at 66mhz, the hard drive would probably run at
that reduced bandwidth. BUT the good news is that hard drives rarely
transfer data any faster than that except for burst from cache.
What a crock of misinformation!
Ya think? Prove it.
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