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Hoovie
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 Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject: PATA v SATA |
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OK - I *know* I should know this as I have been in IT for donkeys, but my excuse is that I've not been proper hands on for years 
SATA V PATA ....
Just bought a 2nd Hand AOpen XCCube AV PC to use as my Internet/ General Purpose/ Games Box (Flight Sim, AOE, that kind of thing).
System has come with a 80GB SATA Drive. I have a couple of good quality 160GB PATA Drives. But the System only has room for ONE hard drive internally
The Extra 80GB would be handy (never have too much storage  ) but is not essential at all.
So ... Is there any great advantage in SATA which means I should just leave the original 80GB in place, or should I drop in my 160GB PATA instead and find more stuff to fill up the extra space 
Any Opinions?
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Hoovie :Salute:
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RichieP
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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One of many pages on the subject here
I know it's a bit old, but they reckon SATA is better than PATA, even before SATA 2 came out.
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Slugster
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Just dropped two SATA 10k drive in my PC
Very nice. Serious stuff runs SAS now bit for us SATA is the way to go
Just my $0.02
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Trickydickie
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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The SATA drive data transfer rate is far quicker than PATA, stick with the SATA drive and the transfer speed will be a lot better (when its reading/transfering data to and from the drive)
Personally if I needed more space I would go out and buy a bigger SATA drive as they are so cheap now and sell the old one on **ay. You can buy a 320gb SATA drive nowadays for around £50-£60.
Hope this helps
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Hoovie
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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I have done some testing on this box and the SATA 80GB disk benchmarks a lot better then the PATA 160GB Disk
I've just bought a brand new SATA 500GB disk off a mate for £47.50 inc P&P 
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Trickydb9
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SATA is faster! Your PATA has more space....your choice!
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