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SATA vs EIDE
Which would you recommend?
I'm looking to either add an extra hd or replace the one I've got with something that has a little more space. Another quick question - Can SATA be used in conjunction with an EIDE hd? Many thanks, Scott |
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SATA is the wave of the immediate future,is a little faster, and uses a nice
small data cable to connect it,so I'd go that route. If your motherboard supports both types you can mix them. There are no master, slave arrangements with SATA just individual channels "Scott" wrote in message ... Which would you recommend? I'm looking to either add an extra hd or replace the one I've got with something that has a little more space. Another quick question - Can SATA be used in conjunction with an EIDE hd? Many thanks, Scott |
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"Scott" wrote in message ... Which would you recommend? I'm looking to either add an extra hd or replace the one I've got with something that has a little more space. Another quick question - Can SATA be used in conjunction with an EIDE hd? Many thanks, Scott Since you didn't tell us what board you own, we would recommend the safe upgrade. Find a Maxtor Diamond Max 9 that is the size you want. Buy the EIDE version. JPS |
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jpsga wrote:
Since you didn't tell us what board you own, we would recommend the safe upgrade. Find a Maxtor Diamond Max 9 Yeah, right. 2nd worst possible choice, after Hitachi. Never mind - all good for my business. Odie -- RetroData Data Recovery Experts www.retrodata.co.uk |
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"RBM" rmottola1(remove wrote in message ... SATA is the wave of the immediate future,is a little faster, and uses a nice small data cable to connect it,so I'd go that route. If your motherboard supports both types you can mix them. There are no master, slave arrangements with SATA just individual channels "Scott" wrote in message ... Which would you recommend? I'm looking to either add an extra hd or replace the one I've got with something that has a little more space. Another quick question - Can SATA be used in conjunction with an EIDE hd? Many thanks, Scott Cheers! Think my next drive WILL be an SATA one then. And sure if the other one dies I'll replace that with another SATA instead of IDE. Thanks again! Scott |
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interesting . . . Q) What are your top 5 bad drives makes and top 5 good makes ? or is that a trade secret ? :-) "Odie Ferrous" wrote in message ... jpsga wrote: Since you didn't tell us what board you own, we would recommend the safe upgrade. Find a Maxtor Diamond Max 9 Yeah, right. 2nd worst possible choice, after Hitachi. Never mind - all good for my business. Odie -- RetroData Data Recovery Experts www.retrodata.co.uk |
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"Scott" wrote in message ... | Which would you recommend? Depends on what you want to do. A typical SATA will not significantly out-perform a 7200 8mb-buffer PATA, and today PATA's are a bargain in the marketplace. E.g., check this out: http://shop2.outpost.com/product/3483523 If you're doing disk-intensive work like I do, a fast SATA like the WD Raptors will out-perform any PATA. | I'm looking to either add an extra hd or replace the one I've got with | something that has a little more space. | | Another quick question - Can SATA be used in conjunction with an EIDE hd? You didn't say what you have now, but you can buy a new PATA or SATA and clone the contents of the old drive onto the new using the software included with the drive, if it's a retail version. If OEM you can download the cloning utility from the manufacturer's site, or use Norton Ghost if you have it. There are some tricks to moving from PATA to SATA, and you didn't give any details on the composition of your system. Upgrading PATA-to-PATA is simple, however. Knowing the mobo model and present IDE configuration would help. |
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"zero" wrote in message ... | | interesting . . . | | Q) What are your top 5 bad drives makes and top 5 good makes ? | | or is that a trade secret ? Go to www.storagereview.com and register for the Reliability Survey, which will tell you what other users are experiencing with every drive model under the sun. I use mostly WD's he C: WD SATA Raptors (2) in RAID0 array, total 72gb. D: Maxtor Diamondmax 9 PATA, 160gb. J: WD 120gb PATA, exterior enclosure (Firewire) K: WD 100gb PATA, exterior enclosure (Firewire) J: and K: are powered on only when needed. I also rotate six PATA drives in mobile racks for weekly cloning, three being old IBM's and three WD's. However, one of the 5-year-old IBM 20gb drives in this group has recently become slow to spin up, and I may toss it. In the past 22 years I've used dozens of drives and have had only two fail, only one catastrophically, which was an ancient 5mb (that's mb, not gb) MFM drive circa 1985. Nowadays I put lots of air on my drives and they run cool, which I think is a key to drive durability. The drive bay housing my C: and D: drives has its own dedicated 80mm fan. The Maxtor runs 8-10°C hotter when this fan is not running. |
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"Bob Davis" wrote in message news:m7yBd.11920$sf5.2203@lakeread05... "zero" wrote in message ... | | interesting . . . | | Q) What are your top 5 bad drives makes and top 5 good makes ? | | or is that a trade secret ? Go to www.storagereview.com and register for the Reliability Survey, which will tell you what other users are experiencing with every drive model under the sun. I use mostly WD's he C: WD SATA Raptors (2) in RAID0 array, total 72gb. D: Maxtor Diamondmax 9 PATA, 160gb. J: WD 120gb PATA, exterior enclosure (Firewire) K: WD 100gb PATA, exterior enclosure (Firewire) J: and K: are powered on only when needed. I also rotate six PATA drives in mobile racks for weekly cloning, three being old IBM's and three WD's. However, one of the 5-year-old IBM 20gb drives in this group has recently become slow to spin up, and I may toss it. In the past 22 years I've used dozens of drives and have had only two fail, only one catastrophically, which was an ancient 5mb (that's mb, not gb) MFM drive circa 1985. Nowadays I put lots of air on my drives and they run cool, which I think is a key to drive durability. The drive bay housing my C: and D: drives has its own dedicated 80mm fan. The Maxtor runs 8-10°C hotter when this fan is not running. You **** it right. I won't use a case unless I can get an 80/92/120mm fan right in front of them. For the noise I prefer a 120. |
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"Bob Davis" wrote in message news:wTxBd.11919$sf5.11328@lakeread05... "Scott" wrote in message ... | Which would you recommend? Depends on what you want to do. A typical SATA will not significantly out-perform a 7200 8mb-buffer PATA, and today PATA's are a bargain in the marketplace. E.g., check this out: http://shop2.outpost.com/product/3483523 If you're doing disk-intensive work like I do, a fast SATA like the WD Raptors will out-perform any PATA. | I'm looking to either add an extra hd or replace the one I've got with | something that has a little more space. | | Another quick question - Can SATA be used in conjunction with an EIDE hd? You didn't say what you have now, but you can buy a new PATA or SATA and clone the contents of the old drive onto the new using the software included with the drive, if it's a retail version. If OEM you can download the cloning utility from the manufacturer's site, or use Norton Ghost if you have it. There are some tricks to moving from PATA to SATA, and you didn't give any details on the composition of your system. Upgrading PATA-to-PATA is simple, however. Knowing the mobo model and present IDE configuration would help. Sorry guys! I own an Aopen AK77-600GN (http://www.aopen.nl/products/mb/AK77-600GN.htm) I'm running an EIDE drive at the moment. I'm sure you don't need to know the CPU speed or anything? Scott |
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