2006-11-06 01:10:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Simple Answer, SATA is faster.
There are two versions, SATA and SATA II. SATA is 1.5 G/s and SATA II is 3 Gb/s,
IDE is 133 Mb/s
Keep in mind the the REAL bottle neck is in the PCI bus, which is limited to 133Mb/s, so if your motherboard does not have true SATA II support the actual through-put will always be limited to 133Mb/s.
2006-11-06 01:31:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, SATA is definitey faster than IDE. the main difference is in the transfer speeds. IDE supports only upto a abt 266MB/s, where are SATA ranges in GB/s.
the two variants of SATA are SATA and SATA II.
SATA II supports speeds upto 3GB/s.
before changing to SATA, u should first check your motherboard for SATA compatibility.
2006-11-06 13:54:05 · answer #2 · answered by sameer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is faster than IDE, but not boost speed, the RPM of the Hard Drive differs in the speed.
2006-11-06 09:16:11 · answer #3 · answered by midoonline 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not much faster.
The biggest bottle necks of a PC are the Video and Memory. Have plenty of system memory and a good video card and you will see a more noticeable difference than if you increase your processor speed or Hard-drive type.
2006-11-06 09:18:16 · answer #4 · answered by ○Freeman○ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The northbride chip on my motherboard will support up to 1.3 Gb/sec. The best any IDE will do is 150Mb/sec. See any difference? ;-)=
2006-11-06 09:28:33 · answer #5 · answered by Jcontrols 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only effective method to really boost performance is raid ...
2006-11-06 09:35:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yup
2006-11-06 09:11:42 · answer #7 · answered by Funky G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋