PATA and SATA

[tushar_novice]

Which one is better: PATA or SATA and why?

[swatkat]

All newer motherboards support SATA, so you can go for SATA.
SATA is theoritically faster than PATA, greatly removes the Cable clutter (only 7 conductor cable), SATA drives have CRC check on data and commands also, so data protection is more.
PATA drives offer speeds upto 133MBytes/Sec and they have already reached the limit.
But SATA drives start from 150MBytes/Sec, and in near future they can go upto 600MBytes/Sec.

[[lokesh]]

Obviously SATA is much better than PATA. One good example would be with the formatting process.
If you had ever formatted your PATA hard disk..you would know that it would take not less than 2 or 3 minutes, but in case of SATA it takes just 1 second to format!!!

[busyanuj]

go for a Serial ATA hard drive, it's faster (150 Megabits per second).
and it gives you a relatively clutter free cabinet.

[krishnathelord]

i used smasung 80gb sata but havent noticed any improvment in performance

[pradeep_chauhan]

Use some application that does a lot of disk operation there you will see the imrovement also the boot up time also reduces To get an exact benchmark use hd tach a software that maps the throughput graph.

[Doc Holliday]

Benefits of SATA

*Clutter free cabinet, which translates to better thermal management.
*Theoritically faster (150 Mbps vs. 133 Mbps of PATA)
*Number of permutations of RAID (depending on your SATA controller/motherboard model) -- I think it is here where you are going to get most of the benefits of SATA.
*You are buying newer technology.
*Show off to your friends

DH

[pradeep_chauhan]

And one great thing if i can add sata supports what only scsi drives had til date its called native command queuing (this tecnology has to be supported by your sata controller also ) which gives a straight 10-15% boost in drive performance.

[Doc Holliday]

Actually, not all SATA HDDs support NCQ (or Native Command Queuing). Yes, as Pradeep pointed out, the SATA controller should support this feature as well.

At the moment, implementing NCQ will cost you - both in terms of the HDD itself and the motherboards (or controllers) that support this feature.

Thanks,

DH