PATA or SATA

and has lower access times.
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true, but not directly because of the interface though, there are other factors such as NCQ that sataII offers.

Note that most hdd's haven't been able to use the bandwidth of sata150 let alone sata300, hence the reason Raptors are all 1.5Gbps - even the new 150 GB model.
 
apj101 said:
true, but not directly because of the interface though, there are other factors such as NCQ that sataII offers.

Note that most hdd's haven't been able to use the bandwidth of sata150 let alone sata300, hence the reason Raptors are all 1.5Gbps - even the new 150 GB model.
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Very true, but its still only on the sata drive ;) (not including SCSI, obviously)

Im not positive that this is true, because others as well as me find sata to be much faster at loading programs and transfering files.
 
Im not positive that this is true, because others as well as me find sata to be much faster at loading programs and transfering files.
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the move from pata133, to sata150 is more noticable than from sata150 to sata300; at the moment anyway
 
im using sata 150 in raid 0 and i must admit it sometimes appears a little sluggish to me... but then again i may have just got used to it and it seems "average". in my opinion the only advantage of sata is the buffered transfer where it runs at the highest speed possible. when we see bigger leaps in drive spindle speed you get a more noticeable improvement in speed due to higher sustained tranfer rates.
also, a lot of hardcore overclockers swear by pata drives because its is often the sata controller that will start to cause instability in the system when overclocking
 
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