2006-10-24 07:40:23 · 4 answers · asked by Backtash123 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/newsroom/releases/article/0,1121,1968,00.html
http://www.eweek.com/category2/0,4148,1237893,00.asp?kc=EWGL10310KTX2B2200436CMTST
2006-10-24 07:43:52 · answer #1 · answered by dancer_babe357 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SATA is for very fast serial transfer to and from hard drives and such. There doesn't really need to be much difference with enclosures except that the cable is smaller than with IDE. Most modern mother boards use SATA instead of IDE.
2006-10-24 14:55:21 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SATA is Great. You can buy one or more! I prefer two. You can connect them in different configurations to get benefits. Windows does ask for the special driver for SATA on first boot of the OS install. This comes from the company that makes the drive and gives you these configs. Like:
Standard: (1 hard drive) simple, sweet and fast. Great read and write speeds compared to IDE. SATA WINS.
SATA RAID 0: striping (2 hard drives). To try to sum it up, instead of a CPU talking to one hard drive and having it search and write as fast as it can, SATA RAID 0 talks to two hard drives, the info sent to them is split in two. For example, in IDE there is a single line of info sent to one hard drive and read back at the speed of 100 words a second. In SATA that info is at the speed of 200 words a second because the info is cut in half and sent to and from two hard drives. The read and write speeds double. There is some downfalls. If 1 of the hard drives fail, all info is lost on both drives. I have had that happen to me.
SATA RAID 1: mirroring (4 hard rives) This is the backup to the above. All the above applies and you have two additional hard drives to mirror (copy) all info into them in case one drive fails.
I can go on and on about the many more configurations that can be accomplished (I think there is 8?).
IDE drives have no options available such as SATA.
I hope that answers it.
2006-10-24 18:02:24 · answer #3 · answered by Mike F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SATA is faster and more stable than IDE. I have one, FINALLY, that came on my new Toshiba laptop. So, far, other than being extremely quiet, it's been very quick to respond. I doubt I'll ever use an IDE HDD again! good luck :-)
2006-10-24 14:59:00 · answer #4 · answered by Army Of Machines (Wi-Semper-Fi)! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋