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SATA or IDE

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by hawk22, 2006/06/26.

  1. 2006/06/26
    hawk22

    hawk22 Geek Member Thread Starter

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    Hi, I am between two opinions, I am setting up a system with a new but old style socket A Motherboard AMD XP2600+ Barton Core CPU. I have 2 HDD one 40Gig PATA and one 80 Gig Sata . I can not make up my mind as I don’t know not having loaded Windows XP on a Sata drive before, whether I should load Windows XP Pro onto the 40Gig ATA 100 7200 rpm or the Sata drive I have been told that by only having one drive connected there is no problem loading to the Sata drive, but then I read there can be problems and it would be better using the Sata drive as a second drive using the ATA drive as the boot drive.
    The mobo is a ASUS A7V600-X that supports Sata 1 and I will start off with 512mb of DDR3200 Ram any good value to go to 1 Gig of Ram??
    Your ideas as always would be appreciated.
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    Steve R Jones

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    I would base my decision on "how much space do I need. "
     
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    Christer

    Christer Geek Member Staff

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    Is the PATA 100/133? If it is, you won't notice any difference compared to a SATA 150 in terms of general performance. (SATA of the first generation was basically a new interface with no advances behind that. In other words, the same innards but a different plug.)

    I always have only the hard disk onto which the OS gets installed connected when installing. All other hard disks and devices (scanner, printer, card readers and such) get connected and installed later.

    I have installed one system based on the Asus P4P800 and Seagate 7200.7 SATA. It didn't require any F6 and specific drivers but I don't know about your mobo. A second hard disk, a Seagate 7200.7 PATA (for backwards compatibility) was connected and installed at a later time.

    512 MB is OK for most but if you do photo and video editing, 1 GB won't hurt.

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  5. 2006/06/27
    hawk22

    hawk22 Geek Member Thread Starter

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    OK thanks for that, I do like the SATA drives well I like the cable nice and slim more room in the case.
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