SATA drive ?

ProgMtl

ProgMtl

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I'm building a new computer...old one is a socket 478...the board has to SATA slots on it (currently using IDE though)...the manual says "it satisfies the SATA 1.0 spec and with transfer rate of 1.6Gb/s"

All the new SATA drives I see are saying 3.0....will one of the new drives work in this old system (I have almost 140gb of music I need to get off and put in the new computer...was going to use 2 SATA in the new system).

I'm not sure if those numbers are talking about transfer rates or some hardware thing. I just don't want to buy a drive that I can't plug into the old computer temporarily to get my music swapped to it.


Thanks for any insight on this.
 
Most drives ide or sata do have a limited backward capability. For the short term use you shouldn't see a problem. The alternate way of transferring a large amount of files without removable media is the 1394 firewire method for direct machine to machine. You may be able to simply put the old drive in the new case for copy+paste that way. The 3.0 means that the new drives support upto that transfer rate not that they require it.
 
Thanks....I was looking at some WD Caviar SATA drives and users have said there is a jumper on them to make them work in an old system that uses 1.0
 
WD makes some great drives while most are somewhat backward compatible. This is seen more with ide drives over sata however. But you should be able to grab your files by dropping a drive from one case to the other there. If you do run into any problems copying in either case know any Linux users?

A live for cd distro like Knoppix or ubuntu is a well known data rescue tool since you simply boot from a cd to access partitions that have become inaccessible. I keep a few onhand here at all times in case? The drives installed appear as desktop shortcuts where opening two drives is easy for copying files. But that is a last resort option since you shouldn't run into any big problems there.
 
I think sata is beter than ide.

Often abbreviated SATA or S-ATA, an evolution of the Parallel ATA physical storage interface. Serial ATA is a serial link - a single cable with a minimum of four wires creates a point-to-point connection between devices. Transfer rates for Serial ATA begin at 150MBps. One of the main design advantages of Serial ATA is that the thinner serial cables facilitate more efficient airflow inside a form factor and also allow for smaller chassis designs. In contrast, IDE cables used in parallel ATA systems are bulkier than Serial ATA cables and can only extend to 40cm long, while Serial ATA cables can extend up to one meter.
 
Wrong! There are 36" ide round cables available for purchase. Simply run a search for 36" ide cables and find one like the 36" round ide cable you would use in a full tower case at http://www.xoxide.com/sidude36.html

The sata drive sees a 7pin not 4pin connector on the data cable. Running XP on both types of drives here hasn't seen any actual boost in Windows performance as far as OS. The benefit of the faster bus is read and file copy times are reduced. You can access a sata in an explorer window faster then seen with when trying to read from a separate ide drive. That's where the real gain is.
 
You can get 36 inch IDE flat cables, but that means nothing. 16 inch IDE cable is the most you should use or you start running the risk of data corruption.
 
Oh really? I've neen using Antec Cobra 26" round cables(same set believe or not) on the last few builds. These have been far more reliable then any 16" flat ribbon cables. The longer cables have their application for larger cases there. You don't see data corruption but a slight increase in electrical resistance that is not even noticable. That's simply due to more material in a longer cable.
 
When I see any with four feet I'll assume the case has some type of infection that needs cleaning! :P "Whose pest or pet got loose? :eek: "
 
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