IDE 7200 RPM VS SATA 7200 RPM ?

[Scottie]

what ones faster?

I'm thinking about getting a SATA hard drive for my boot disc and I'm still confused some people say you need to install drivers for it before installing the OS other people say you don't?

and no I don't want raid I just want one SATA HD for my boot disc.

[sterno]

If it's the same drive you probably won't see any real difference between the UDMA/100 version and the SATA version. The drive itself will be far slower than the maximum transfer rate of either interface. At this point SATA mainly has better cabling and more of a future.

[rallynavvie]

I wouldn't say necessarily better cabling. The cables are smaller and easier to use but the connectors are weak and can be easy to break. Also not all people have power supply connectors for native SATA power. Next generation SATA drives will use 3.3V power in addition to the standard 4 wires but apparently the next generation will also have sturdier connectors. Dunno when those are supposed to come out though.

You won't notice much of a difference between IDE and SATA of the same speed, all else being the same.

[ViRaL1]

Go U320:P

[tonyp12]

(U320 is refering to Ultra scsi 320)

I just looked what test reference Sandra shows in ATA100 vs Sata150

They both got around 30mb/s, so no really a speed difference.

But Sata is the future, so go with that.


About Drivers.

My Motherboard-CD came with the SATA driver needed for WinXP.
I needed to boot from this CD to get to the program that created
the floppy disk with the driver on it.

I think during the first minutes during winxp install it tells you to press
F6 to supply any scsi or raid drivers, do so then.

I have attached a GIF from the manual of your mobo
I think that is what you need to do to get a sata driver floppy disk
even if you do not plan to do a Raid.



looks your bios can create the floppy disk needed.
http://forum.msi.com.tw/thread.php?threadid=59310

[ViRaL1]

looks your bios can create the floppy disk needed.
http://forum.msi.com.tw/thread.php?threadid=59310

Where did you see that? I read and I must have missed that part. You can use the CD to create a driver disk. You can setup the RAID array after the RAID BIOS loads, but I don't recall anything about the BIOS creating the floppy.

[tonyp12]

My mistake.

On my mobo (ASRock) I never had to go in to bios for it to see a
regular, single sata drive.
Just used the driver on floppy when winxp asked for it.

I guess on MSI you still have to set up an array in Bios,
I missread it as it's saying it will create something on floppy for you.

I did have to use the SIS bios to setup a raid0 when I added my
second sata drive.

[ViRaL1]

Setting up an array is separate from the BIOS. It looks like SATA support is controlled by a Promise FastTrak 376. In order for the Promise RAID controller to make use of SATA drives you have to create an 'array', even if it's just a single disk. Once that's created the drive will be visible to software. I have the same setup, also from MSI. A single drive on the RAID controller. It's actually a PATA drive, but it's 250GB and the main onboard controllers don't support 48-bit LBA.

[freestyler]

Rallynavvie speaks the truth: the connectors are very easily to break.

A speed difference between ATA and SATA from my point of view is negligible unless you're throwing some Raptors into the mix.