What SATA? and how good is it perform?
347624
Serial ATA.  It has an actual data transfer rate of 1.2 gigabits per second (Gbit/s), or 150 megabytes per second.\n\nMuch better than the standard ATA parallel cables.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
908612
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.
240824
You need to check the user manual whether your system supports SATA. FYI you need different interface on the motherboard in order to use SATA hdds
934441
well really depends on what kind of hardrives you have are they IDE or SATA?? sata has raid features on it so you can  also doesnt matter how much space yor disks have to spped up ur system it reallt matters on the system ram
202576
just buy a good drive, maxtor ( now seagate ) or western digital\nmake sure the interface is the same ( it's probaly PATA and not SATA is you got a 33gb hardrive ), most all are 7200 rpm\nyour biggest problem will be weather or not your bios can handle a drive over 137Gb if you get one that big, you also did not mention your OS, and what you be foramtting the drive to ( FAT32 or NTFS ).
548757
Very Good!! Asus socket 939 Mobo; AMD Dual core 4400+ processor; Zalman CPU Fan; 2GB Kingston ValueRAM; EVGA 256MB or 512MB AGP or PCI Card; Two-74GB Western Digital Raptor (10,000 RPM) SATA Hard Drives; a 600 Watt Power Source with fan controls; one 250GB Western Digital SATAII Hard Drive (with the 16MB Cashe) for backups; one 16x Plextor DVD-RW; one Lite-On DVD/CD Combo Drive; one Floppy Drive with Card Reader; Plenty of case fans to keep your cool. 19" monitor, keyboard, optical mouse, 5:1 amplifyed speakers. Joysticks and other interfaces. That'll probably shoot down that $2500 real fast! Try buying at Newegg.com or at Tiger Direct. That might save you some $$!
740917
Kernel versions earlier to 2.6 won't support SATA disks.\n\nBetter u go for RED HAT AS distribution,as I've heard it supports sata.
500761
check if you have SATA ports on yer motherboard..nowadays motherboards are pretty much labelled or atleast the cabinets have a diagram of the motherboard with labelling.. if ya have sata go for it..(if yer budget allows)\n\nthe basic diff between ATA and SATA is the RPMs
1169033
i tried it on a 120gb, it probablly depends on your mobo capacity. 98se rocks!
835641
ok you only want the system to surf the net, i pressume you will at some point want to watch video files?\nso you want a system with a minimum 512MB 333mhz or faster (higher numbered) DDR or DDRII RAM(Minimum).\nprocessor speed of 1.8GHz (1800Mhz) is a little slow but will work adequetly (i built a system for a neighbour with similer requirements to yours)\nas much cach level 1 and level 2 as possible (the higher the number the better)\n\nfor your needs as a beginer 120GB (unformatted) 111GB approx (formatted) should be a good starting point, however make sure the hard drive RPM is above 7200RPM and if the system has SATA capability even if the system has no sata drive installed will enable you to upgrade to larger hard drives (although you can upgrade your primary drive) SATA transfers faster than PATA/UDMA/IDE drives of the same size and RPM.\n\nif you can make sure the System has seagate brand hard drive(s) as this brand is the most reliable you can get.\nyou should also check the systems PSU (Power Supply Unit) as most budget systems come with only around a 350 to 400W this will in the short term be ok your system may (if you get the right PSU) work faster and with a greater level of system stability with a much larger PSU for example in my primary system i have a 650W PSU but then i'm running 7 internal hard drives, 1 DVD burner, floppy multiple PCI cards, AGP graphics card, AMD Sempron 3400 CPU.\n\nyour current system at 240MB? that sounds a little problem? as memory is normaly in multiples such as 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1024MB (1GB), and buffered or unbuffered you should never mix buffered and unbuffered in the same system or your system will become unstable.\nremember when you get your new system you should be able to install the old hard drive in the new system for ease of accessing your old personal data.\n\nif you were local to me i could possibly provide better assistance such as either browsing the stores with you or buying the components and assembling the system yourself.\nremember that if you do build a new computer and scrap your old one you can get away with using your old software, some of your old hardware such as your display panel keyboard and mouse etc.\nthe only think you would realy need to buy would be new main board, CPU, RAM, and possibly a new hard drive. you then just scrap your old system components. which means if money is tight why buy a complete new system if you only need the new components, by buying and building selectively you can get more for your money effectively. however unless you know what you are doing you could fry the componets as they are electostaticaly sensetive, so you need to ground yourself with a wrist strap or other device when building your system remeber to ground to any properly earthed such as a cable connected to bare copper on a central heating system or other similar instalation.
1144816
I don't have any experience with Seagate HDD's, but I have heard from people who have used them in heavy usage situations and they say that they are not all that good. They recommend Western Digital first and Maxtor a close second. I have built a couple of computers, and I buy most of my parts from newegg.com. I do trust the customer comments, especially the last two months, this may show a trend in quality issues.
995918
SATA is the newer tech.  SCSI has been around for a long time.  \nFor a desktop SATA2 is the way to go.  The most bang for the money.  Also, ignore 10,000 rpm or 15,000 rpm.  they only way a person will ever know the difference in harddrive speed is if they use bench marking software.  Hard disk controllers and hard drives themselves have on board memory called cache that helps move data at faster rates.\n\nSCSI is specifically for servers or video editing solutions.  It moves data at a constant rate were as SATA and the older ATA work at high speeds by using burst technology.
678591
SATA II drive will work on SATA I port but it will run the at the speed of SATA I... if i remember it correctly the SATA II speed is 3.0 Gb/s where as SATA I speed is 1.5 Gb/s... So SATA II running on SATA I port will run at 1.5 Gb/s.\nMoreover the other features of SATA II drive like NCQ and so and so will also not work in SATA I port... But it will not cause any trouble.\n\nI m using a SATA II on my SATA I port (865 Chipset Motherboard)
668008
You can run the PowerLeap upgrade configurator, to see what your system is capable of, in regards to upgrades. http://www.powerleap.com/\nHowever, they are way overpriced, so take the info and run like heck, to Fry's, or a compatible store!!\nIs the floppy drive working?\nYou did not  really give us your existing configuration, so answering your TV Tuner card question could be hard ?\n{e.g. who made you motherboard?, CPU specs (P3-could range from 450MHz. to 1.3GHz}?, Use of TV Tuner card - watch TV, or record, an burn movies?
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You will get the right answer from the vendor when you buy a new hard drive by giving the following details.\n\n1.The make and model of the motherboard and\n2.The version of Windows you are  using.\n\nAll new hard disks now come with SATA (serial ATA) connection.  The preferred speed is 7200 rpm but for laptops many people settle for lower speed of 5000 rpm since they are cheaper.\n\nOld motherboards like Socket 7 can recognize hard disks with maximum 20GB capacity in LBA mode in 2-5GB capacity running Windows 98SE. \n\nWhen you use Windows 98, disk fragmentation in partitions with only 2GB capacity can be be done faster than the larger size partitions of 3-5GB. \n\nLatest motherboards like ASUS P4V8X-X running Windows XP can read large capacity hard disks. The speed depends on the RAM. Older SD RAMs are slower but DDR RAM modules run much faster.\n\nAll external hard drives are recognized instantly by Windows XP but you have to install a driver if you are using Windows 98SE.\n\nWhen you buy a new hard disk, you must always ask for the vendor's confirmation about the compatibility by giving the version of Windows you are using and also the motherboard maker's model number. Otherwise, you may have difficulty getting the replacement.
735898
Sata-1 would be a good place for the primary drive. When you expand add to 2, 3 , etc.
152411
I would check the HD in another system and the IDE or SATA wire.\n\nYou can buy another control card that plugs into a PCI slot, it might even be faster.