speed: sata vs pata

Troncoso

Troncoso

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Hello.
I had my os on a sata drive @ 7200 rpm. I then switched to a pata @ 7200 rpm and put the same os on that. Though now I can see an increase in boot time. Is the fact that the first one is a sata means its faster or is there a problem with my pata drive? Thanks for any help.
 
Hard drives using PATA are slower due to the lower transfer speed of that technology. Here are the specifications of PATA and the different SATA revisions.
 
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dang. What a low blow. Oh well, besides a bout 20+ seconds of boot time, my pc isn't running too slow so i'll live. anyway to speed it up though? Maybe?
 
The slowness should have very little to do with the type of connection technology... the hard drive in itself is most likely just slower. It's not just the revs per minute that count, kinda like clockspeed doesn't necessarily tell how fast a CPU is. PATA is still plenty fast for mechanical hard drives, pretty sure they only become a bottleneck during burst reads... but you won't get those enough to make a noticeable difference in the boot time.

Also, are you comparing fresh installations? If you had even just a few months old installation on the old hard drive and started fresh with the new hard drive, the boot time would be noticeably shorter.
 
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