I think mine is an IDE hard drive....somebody had suggested me to upgrade it to a SATA hard drive for faster reading/writing speed..
how much difference are we talking about ?
thank you
2007-02-27 17:55:50 · 6 answers · asked by Raiden H 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Serial ATA adapters and devices communicate over a high-speed serial link. At the physical layer, the data-connection is formed by two pairs of (unidirectional) signal wires. Over these wires, SATA uses Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS), enabling much higher (per-wire) signaling rates (1.5Gbps and up) than traditional parallel ATA.
AT Attachment (ATA) is a standard interface for connecting storage devices such as hard disks and CD-ROM drives inside personal computers.
The standard is maintained by X3/INCITS committee T13. Many terms and synonyms for ATA exist, including abbreviations such as IDE, ATAPI, and UDMA. Also, with the market introduction of Serial ATA in 2003, the original ATA was retroactively renamed Parallel ATA (PATA).
In line with the original naming, this article covers only Parallel ATA.
Parallel ATA standards allow cable lengths up to only 18 inches (46 centimeters) although cables up to 36 inches (91 cm) can be readily purchased. Because of this length limit, the technology normally appears as an internal computer storage interface. It provides the most common and the least expensive interface for this application.
2007-02-27 18:04:04 · answer #1 · answered by Mortis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IDE is the older form of hard drive and CD drive interface. It is around 2.5 inches wide, and transmits at up to 1GB per second. SATA is a newer interface, is about an inch wide, and can transmit up to 3 GB/s. You can get a SATA drive only if your motherboard has the right connector, which means only if you bought your computer in the last year or so.
2007-02-28 02:02:56 · answer #2 · answered by Michael R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SATA will only help if you are doing large amounts of data storage and moving.. such as in video encoding. For general tasks, you may want to look at the RPM speed of the hard drive. That will speed up the lookup of data on the drive. 7200 RPM is better than 5400 RPM and 4200 RPM. You may see about 10% perforamcne increase or more, depending on what programs you are running.
2007-02-28 02:05:25 · answer #3 · answered by shadowkat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SATA drives are faster than IDE drives. Its basically newer technology.
1) Speed (150mbps (SATA) vs 100/133mbps (PATA))
2) Air flow (large IDE cable vs thin SATA)
3) Hot swappable (SATA)
4) Newer technology with future speed increases promised.
Hope this helps.
2007-02-28 02:05:44 · answer #4 · answered by phillippemb 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SATA is a advanced technology of ATA. SATA(Serial ATA) has more rpm than IDE.rpm means rotations per minute.By this feature SATA has better performance than ATA regarding data transfer, software installation,data storage,etc.,
2007-02-28 02:29:15 · answer #5 · answered by vivekananda s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by spec the increase SATA has is about 1/4 over fastest IDE version
2007-02-28 02:03:31 · answer #6 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋