SATA or no SATA -- Plz help!!

[vigo]

Hi

I want to upgrade my hard-disk. i have a pretty old config. my system config is
Intel Pentium IIIE 1GHz processor,
Intel Whitney 810E mobo,
256 MB SDRAM,
20 GB hard-disk.

1. Will my system support SATA hard-disks ?
2. If it doesnt, Can i use some PCI adapter to make it compatible with SATA hard-disks ?
3. Is there a big difference between SATA and regular hard-disks ?
4. If i buy a regular hard-disk (PATA) and if i later upgrade my mobo to a latest model (say athlon xp 3200 ) , will there be any compatility issues ?

Plz help me make a good decision.

thanks
vigo

[Choto Cheeta]

nope... P-III on 810E chip set wont support SATA.....

mate why PCI adaptor.... it will slow ur SATA to look like its UATA....

u cant use AMD with 810E mobo....

[Choto Cheeta]

its better to overhall ur system.... see SATA is definetly faster than PATA/UATA....

my suggetion.... if u can then wait till dual core procy become little chip... then go for a total system overhall.... as i see that ur config isnt bad atall.....

[vigo]

hi saurav

so is goin for a 80 GB regular hard disk better rite now ?
any idea how much that pci adapter wud cost ?


thanks
vigo

[King_Niral]

Hey a pci Raid Adapter would cost around 1.5k to 12k (This is the price till wat i have heard off !!!)


CHeers !!!

[dOm1naTOr]

There is not much difference b/w the perfomance of a SATA nd a PATA. Only the max theoritical bandwidth is different. So go fo a PATA.
Using Xtra cards would slow down the system nd U will not get the full benifit of SATA.

[mamba]

yup , as aravind said the theoritical bandwidth is more . but as of now there aint much of a noticable diff in performances . mayb +5%

what i like bout sata is that the cable n connector r really small ( not as broad as those IDE 1z ) . it clutters ur system less n helps 2 some extent in ventilation

[AlienTech]

PATA 66+ cables are very easy to break, I found out they use single aluminium wire and just bending the cable will break it. I had major problems with bad cables not knowing why they become bad so easily. The older cables were no problem with twisting it around inside the case to make it fit properly... There should be no speed difference between SATA (150mhz) and PATA (133mhz) since all the hd's now come in both versions and only the interface is different. Of course if you run a RAID system the performance will be better with SATA just like using SCSI. So cable wise SATA is a much better alternative.. Not so much chance to break the cable....

[parimal_xp2003]

Hi. SATA is running st 10000 rpm. Your motherboard is old one so it will not support SATA so don't buy it.

[pradeep_chauhan]

There is only one vendor who has SATA disks at 10K rpm that is the WD raptor all other seagate, samsung etc have sata disks at 7200rpm only. I am using SATA disks in my P3 866 using a Silicom Image raid adaptor card costing Rs 2100/- and no problems on it.