How much better is SATA II over SATA I and ATA?
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http://www.satasite.com/faq.htm
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I did not see the motherboard, but of those two cpu's go with amd for sure, it has more cache making it faster. I saw another thing that could be better, the hard drive is ata100 and that is somewhat slow, for about the same price you could get a sata2 3.0gb/s. (your motherboard has to support it) What is this computer going to be used for? It would help to know.
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With the small speed difference, I'd go with the slower proc and use the savings to invest in more memory which will have a bigger impact on system performance.  If you've already topped out on memory, go with a faster hard drive, like SATA II (300) perpendicular recording drives.
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SATA is abbreviation from Serial ATA. The old connection from hard disk to mother board is using Ultra ATA where you acccess one hard disk one at a time. So if there are two hard disks, the mother board will switch one another to read datas from the hard disk.\nHowever, using the SATA Hard disk, with SATA connectors and SATA supported motherboard, the motherboard can get the data from two hard disk simultaneously. Therefore SATA hard disk will be faster than Ultra ATA or IDE hard disk. (With condition that there are 2 hard disks at once).\nOtherwise, if there is only one hard disk... can't really tell the difference. But I believe the SATA is better since it is newer.
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Native Command Queuing boosts drive reliability and performance. Serial ATA II has created new opportunities for performance improvement at lower cost. This enhanced feature of SATA II interface, vastly improve the performance by allowing multiple commands to be accessed within a drive at the same time. In other words, NCQ command protocol has an internal queue where outstanding commands can be intelligently rescheduled and reordered. Therefore, highly transactional workloads are intelligently processed according to their task priority, which eventually leads to improved drive performance. The introduction of NCQ with SATA II interface will eventually closes the gap in performance compared to higher priced SCSI drives.
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you would be better off using 2 500GB HDs or 4 250GB HDs. they are cheaper than a one tera HD.
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SATA (Serial ATA) is a newer technology that uses serial transfers instead of Parallel transfers, which IDE used. It allows for smaller cables and advanced features like hotplug, which, on supported hardware, will let you plug and unplug your drives without shutting down the computer. The cost difference between the drives is minimal, if your motherboard already has a SATA port on it (most all new ones do) I'd advise for you to go for one with the connector. Keep in mind that if you have an older power supply, you may need a SATA power adaptor, as the power connectors on the drives are also different from IDE drives.
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SATA :\n====\n1. Cables are very thin with small 7-pin connectors. They can be up to 3 feet (1 meter) in length, and are easily routed to stay out of the way allowing maximum airflow inside the case.\n2. SATA has a far lower power requirement of just 250 mV\n3. SATA does away with Master/Slave configurations and drive jumpers. Setup is greatly simplified, and the technology even allows hot-swapping, meaning drives can be removed or added while the computer is running.\n4. It eliminates the transfer limit hit by ATA. First generation has a maximum transfer rate of 150 MB/ps, and SATA II delivers 300 MB/ps. A version set for 2008 will deliver 600 MB/ps.\n\nATA :\n===\n1. Cables are limited to 18 inches in length often made connections difficult & also clog cases blocking airflow.\n2. ATA’s power requirement : 5-volt\n3. ATA drives hit the maximum parallel transfer rate of 133 MB/ps
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ok sata hard drive are for desktop computers. sata11 hard drive are for laptop computers that use the new sata11. all new toshiba g25 come with them so they can raid them
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It doesn't have to be the EXACT same drive.  In reality it doesn't even have to be the same size.  BUT it is recommended they be the same type/size for best performance and to eliminate "waste".  What does need to be identical is the partition sizes on both drives. Another 7200rpm 160MB SATA HDD would be recommended in your case.
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Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. Current specification tranfers data at a max of 150MB/s. Upcoming standards will be SATA-300 and SATA-600. Uses a much smaller 4-pin cable for connection.
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THERE PRETTY CLOSE ON SOME BENCHMARKS GO WITH ONE RAP ONE SATA RAID 1 IF U DONT GAME GO WITH ATHLON X2 GREAT CHIP I HAVE 4200 BUT THEY HAVE 3800 CLOSE TOO THE SAME PRICE AS YOUR 3700 AT NEWEGG.COM
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You would need a new system. Your motherboard most probably does not use SATA.  By a new system I mean new motherboard, hard drive, memory, and of course CPU. All the other stuff you can simply transfer over, like cd or dvd drives, video & sound cards. Most of the new comps can handle up to 2gigs of DDR Ram. It might be a good idea to invest in a new system that is Microsoft Vista ready.
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You need to verify that your controller supports hot-swap.  Some early controllers did not support this.  Also I think many cheap on-board controllers may not support it.  Also remember you can't hot swap your OS drive.\n\nBut the short answer is no, raid is not required to have a hot swap sata drive.
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They usually have higher spindle speed, have more cache, are rated for higher MTBF (Mean time before failure).\n\nAlso, usually, the disk I/O is handled and offloaded to the SCSI controller.  This keeps the CPU more resources for other things.\n\nSCSI has higher transfer speed.  SCSI is capable of up to 360MBps and you can daisy chain more than 2 devices per channel.  Also, SCSI devices can be external devices.\n\nAlso, SATA's NCQ (native command queing) was not avilable to other ATA drives but was originally used on SCSI devices.
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Simple Answer, SATA is faster.\n\nThere are two versions, SATA and SATA II.  SATA is 1.5 G/s and SATA II is 3 Gb/s,\n\nIDE is 133 Mb/s\n\nKeep in mind the the REAL bottle neck is in the PCI bus, which is limited to 133Mb/s, so if your motherboard does not have true SATA II support the actual through-put will always be limited to 133Mb/s.
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well the msi661 is always a solid deal. but it is Matx not the full version. so your out 2 extra pci slots. it is also agp. sadly a fading tech. A quick glance at tigerdirect.com shows that the socket is older then pci-e. so you are out of pci-e \n\nhowever the Asus P4S800D-X SiS has everything you can think of including sata so you can expand your array farther then just the two drives. it's also a solid deal at 70.00$ However biostar,msi, and others also have solid performers. \na quick benchmark guide will show you which one is a better performer.