Serial ATA VS. Parallel ATA or RAID on my asus p4pe?

Omb · Post by **Omb** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 2:45 am

hello everyone.
i bought my new computer with asus p4pe motherboard and i noticed that this version is without a Serial ATA for ata100/133 or raid because it is only optional and i didn't know it until now.

1.how faster is this Serial ATA and will it make a big difference for my audio preformance ?
2.in the mater of playing large audio files
in cubase will RAID will give me a better preformance so the disc activity wont
reach to full ?
i hope that the store will replace it if i'll need.
cheers
Omb

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RedSun · Post by **RedSun** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 12:16 pm

Take a look at the different reviews at <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/index.html">tom's hardware</a>.

So far, most SATA drives don't show any real improvement over their ATA couterparts. I suggest to wait until the next generation of SATA drives come out, unless you absolutely need the better airflow provided by the smaller cables and you don't mind the higher price tag.

RedSun .:.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Wed May 07, 2003 5:21 pm

The answer to this one It’s not obvious as it might seem to be. I have been thinking about that myself for a long time… I don’t know yet, which is the best hard drive to take. It’s too long to say why in here, but the more I think about that, the more I think I’m going Seagate Barracuda V but the ATA version.

What have you finally decided to do?

Omb · Post by **Omb** » Thu May 08, 2003 9:13 am

hello nestor.
i finelly bought th naxtor fireball 9 .
its have 8mb buffer like the westerndigital
and its wark very good .
i dont know what exactly the component (cpu/hard driveram) that make my system run very good or it everything together.
i'm working with xpsx and its finely got
the neaning rock solid.
good luck
Omb

arela · Post by **arela** » Sat May 10, 2003 12:12 pm

hi
S-ATA discs are probably good enough, but it is problems with adapters and chipset.
You should get 150MB/sec transfer to/from a S-ATA disc, but they can't get it faster than up to 40MB/s writing and 60MB/s reading.
Same as ATA-100 / ATA 133
There is however better adapters coming.
(and it don't help MB with onboard S-ATA)
.....but no worry, i'll go for it anyway
from Norway...arela

Omb · Post by **Omb** » Sat May 10, 2003 4:55 pm

thanks norway.

i bought my computer with maxtor fireball 9 80gb that have 8mb catch like the western and till now it's work very goo/

cheers

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat May 10, 2003 6:44 pm

Hello there… cheers for your answer.

Well, this is still my main concern right know. Everything else was rather easy to sort out cos you can follow the differences and understand by yourself what is going on. But with HDs is an entirely different story! It seems a very hidden world of esoteric knowled, only accessible to the builders of the drives themselves. They never tell you much about their drives, their specifications sheets to download are sometimes ridiculous if you are looking for serious information.

For instance, you can find lots and lots of information about every single Chipset or CPU, ram, MOBO, but when it comes to hard drives, it seems companies do not want for you to know what is going on, how big are their platters “exactly”. They never tell you objective benchmarks for you to know which is which… what is what…

There should be an international convention for HD benchmarks, with specific computers build for it, so we can know with more independence and impartiality, how HDs perform.

I’m between the Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus, 7200 8MB, and the Seagate Barracuda V ATA/100. ? :0 ?