SATA worth it?
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Yes
Faster and better airflow.
Faster and better airflow.
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SATA(whether 1 or 2) is at least theoretically faster than ATA hard drives, the cabling is neater as williamw11 alludes to and apart from anything else your SATA ports are otherwise doing nothing else. Also SATA is likely to remain the standard for the forseeable future meaning that it will be easier to transfer your hard drive to a new machine in the future. The only downside to them is the narrower cables are easier to pull out but this isn't much of an issue.
So a very long winded way of saying yes then.
So a very long winded way of saying yes then.
...haven't had one in service for years now hehe.Well it seems that I am lucky as I haven't ever had a hd die on me.
SMART reckons my current 160 gig jobby is perfect, and I've had it years!!
It will now go in my music/gaming rig whilst my "work" pc will get a SATA jobby and also a well deserved windows re-install
SMART reckons my current 160 gig jobby is perfect, and I've had it years!!
It will now go in my music/gaming rig whilst my "work" pc will get a SATA jobby and also a well deserved windows re-install
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3dcandy said:
Probably not worthwhile, it does however depend on whether you mean Raid0 or Raid1 and what your uses would be. SATA Raid will have exactly the same advantages and disadvantages as any other sort of Raid.
