SATA vs IDE ?

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  • s9ann0
    Confirmed User
    • Sep 2001
    • 4873

    #1

    SATA vs IDE ?

    whats better for a video / picture editing windows machine ?
  • ssp
    Confirmed User
    • Jan 2005
    • 7990

    #2
    SATA - It's faster.

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    • chodadog
      Confirmed User
      • Apr 2002
      • 9736

      #3
      No brainer. SATA is faster. There's no application that IDE would be better at than SATA.
      26 + 6 = 1

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      • Brad Mitchell
        Confirmed User
        • Nov 2001
        • 9813

        #4
        Definitely SATA. If you can, get a SATA Western Digital Raptor drive. They spin at 10,000 RPM instead of the 7200 RPM that every other SATA/IDE drive spins at. They are available in 74GB and 36GB capacities for $190 and $115 respectively.

        Brad
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        • iwantchixx
          Too lazy to set a custom title
          • Oct 2002
          • 12860

          #5
          While SATA is faster, it's more prone to errors and data corruption.

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          • WebairGerard
            Confirmed User
            • Sep 2005
            • 8113

            #6
            SATA is much faster and good value. Good to setup a RAID 5 with them as they can be slightly more prone to errors as mentioned above.

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            • Evil Doer
              Confirmed User
              • Dec 2004
              • 915

              #7
              yup, I have a few SATA drives. took me a couple of tries with Western Digital to finally find some GOOD drives, I kept getting bad ones from them =/
              see sig above mine

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              • chodadog
                Confirmed User
                • Apr 2002
                • 9736

                #8
                Originally posted by Brad Mitchell
                Definitely SATA. If you can, get a SATA Western Digital Raptor drive. They spin at 10,000 RPM instead of the 7200 RPM that every other SATA/IDE drive spins at. They are available in 74GB and 36GB capacities for $190 and $115 respectively.

                Brad
                What do you think of Seagate's NCQ feature? They claim that their 7200rpm drives can perform as well as a 10000rpm drive without NCQ. Seems a bit dubious to me. I mean, it makes sense and all, but i haven't seen any independant benchmarks yet to prove it. I'd be pretty impressed if it were true. And then you'd have to start thinking about a 10k rpm drive with NCQ. Mmm.

                Native Command Queuing (NCQ)

                "In simple terms, NCQ functioning is somewhat similar to an elevator. The elevator travels sequentially from floor to floor and lets people on and off. It does not follow the sequence in which users push the floor request buttons, because that would mean an excessive mechanical load and much longer times for waiting or riding"

                http://www.seagate.com/products/inte...ta/native.html
                26 + 6 = 1

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                • HorseShit
                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                  • Dec 2004
                  • 17513

                  #9
                  SATA and only use Seagate drives. They are by far the best!

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                  • moneymotivates
                    Confirmed User
                    • Apr 2005
                    • 511

                    #10
                    SATA all the way!

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                    • FiReC
                      Confirmed User
                      • Jan 2002
                      • 2350

                      #11
                      with one drive you are not going to see a noticable speed difference in ide vs sata, true the sata interface can transfer more data, but that doesn't mean the drives can fill it. now for a serious video editing box, look at a 3+ drive raid 5 array, and get one of them pci-x sata raid cards then you will see a difference.
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                      • Realpascal
                        Confirmed User
                        • Jun 2005
                        • 2119

                        #12
                        SATA rules !! Would love to give them Raptors a try..
                        OMGWTFBBQ

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                        • Doctor Dre
                          Too lazy to set a custom title
                          • Jan 2001
                          • 51692

                          #13
                          SATA all the ay budy ... no brainer ;)

                          Much more silent too
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                          • 2257-Ben
                            Confirmed User
                            • Jun 2005
                            • 633

                            #14
                            SCSI is still the king... Don't cheap out on your disks...
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                            • Calvinguy
                              Confirmed User
                              • Oct 2002
                              • 1752

                              #15
                              SATA have a bigger datatransfer rate so for videoediting they are the option. For normal desktoping there are no difference.

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