Have ATA, is adding an SATA to it troublesome?

dim 8300 / P4 3.0 GHz MT / 800mhz fsb / yada / yada / more yada...


I need to add an HD to my system which already has an 80 gig ATA running on
it. I'm pondering buying an SATA drive.



Questions:

1. Given the SATA chipset in the 8300 (I think it's the first SATA offerred
by Dell), is the SATA /better throughput/ than ATA?
2. Is adding an SATA advisable at this point? (Are there compatibility
issues, etc.)
3. I'm assuming that with SATA it no longer matters what is placed in what
order in terms of speed and hampering another drives speed. Is that true?
Actually, I've heard also that with ATA it hasn't been an issue for some
time, so this is a bit of a useless question....I think.

Thanks!

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dim 8300 / P4 3.0 GHz MT / 800mhz fsb / yada / yada / more yada...




Thomas -

There's a similar thread going on about this below, and I use an 8300 as
well.

The only reason I'd purchase a SATA drive over an IDE drive for this system
would be:

1) If the equivalent price were much less, or.....

2) I thought that there was a possibility that the added drive would
eventually be moved to a new/newer machine later.


I'm running dual 80gb Seagate IDE's right now. I'm about to move up to
larger capacity drives. I may go with SATA as the drive(s) might end up in
my next machine as storage or mirroroing....


Stew

Check out the posts about this on 5/7 and consider the discussion about
the 8300 insisting on booting only from the SATA drive when both types
of drives are present.

Ken

Thomas G. Marshall wrote:


Questions:


2. Is adding an SATA advisable at this point? (Are there compatibility
issues, etc.)
3. I'm assuming that with SATA it no longer matters what is placed in what
order in terms of speed and hampering another drives speed. Is that true?
Actually, I've heard also that with ATA it hasn't been an issue for some
time, so this is a bit of a useless question....I think.

Thanks!

i recently upgraded a hard drive on a 8300 from pata to sata and it was
noticeably faster. of course i went to a 5 year warranty seagate
baracuda at 7200rpm, not sure what speed the craptor was running at.

at the time, i thought i had a choice in the bios which order to boot
from and i thought i saw sata and pata listed separately, so you can
change the order to fit your needs. also, i noticed on other upgrades
that if i add a promise sata controller to a computer, then the bios
shows that promise card in the boot order also, and lets you specify its
priority. very nice feature, but perhaps this feature is only on
computers with the most current bios.

my rule of thumb, i buy sata from now on if the MB has native support
for it. i dont usually add a sata card unless there is a need for it.
sata also makes sense for the older computers because you cant really
buy (or its not cost effective ) to buy smaller drives, and the larger
drives may not be properly supported, and adding sata seems to get
around these problems. thats if the person insists on upgrading an old
computer. i now push all customers to a newer faster computer anyway, i
prove to them its more cost effective.

Thomas G. Marshall wrote:
dim 8300 / P4 3.0 GHz MT / 800mhz fsb / yada / yada / more yada...


I need to add an HD to my system which already has an 80 gig ATA running on
it. I'm pondering buying an SATA drive.



Questions:

1. Given the SATA chipset in the 8300 (I think it's the first SATA offerred
by Dell), is the SATA /better throughput/ than ATA?
2. Is adding an SATA advisable at this point? (Are there compatibility
issues, etc.)
3. I'm assuming that with SATA it no longer matters what is placed in what
order in terms of speed and hampering another drives speed. Is that true?
Actually, I've heard also that with ATA it hasn't been an issue for some
time, so this is a bit of a useless question....I think.

Thanks!

Thomas G. Marshall wrote:

I need to add an HD to my system which already has
an 80 gig ATA running on it.

If all you need is data storage, Staples has a 250 gig external USB 2.0
drive on sale this week for $79. That's really cheap storage, and you
can take it with you when you change machines.

wrote:
If all you need is data storage, Staples has a 250 gig
external USB 2.0 drive on sale this week for $79.
That's really cheap storage, and you can take it with
you when you change machines.


Could you give a link?

*TimDaniels*