SATA vs ATA

just want to expand my knowledge on hard drives really. i heard there's like a 5% difference? if there are / are not any advantages please let me know =]

feel free to tell me to GTFO if its a silly question rolleyes

 

There's never a silly question. ATA/PATA are at best transferring data at 133MHz whereas SATA1 has a bandwidth of 1.5 GHz, besides it's hot pluggable and doesn't have to have being designated master or slave, also the data cables are very small. I'm not sure one can even buy these things anymore. Stick with SATA.

 

well i bought a dell, on the description it says " 640GB (7200rpm) SATA Hard Drive". on my E mail receipt it says "Hard Drive : 640GB Serial ATA (7200RPM)" oh crap i just realised what the S means.... ive been argueing the toss with dell for over an hour lol -_-

 

Aha! ... Migs

This will be your new gaming pc?? the one you gave me the link to?

Yes it is SATA no ATA!

Burrell

 

yea.... words cant explain how stupid i feel right now lol >.<

 

Yeah the SATA being smaller than the ATA is a huge difference, My computer is an old socket 478 board and I'm stuck with using the ATA's, things are really crowded in my PC.
Another thing about the ATA that i seen first hand while installing second HD last night, The ATA's CAN be damaged easily.

 

Well, the customer service rep at Dell should be far more embarrassed if they couldn't explain and clear things up in few minutes. You have no reason to be embarrassed with so many different acronyms being created all the time.

 

The Dell phone rep's are idiots. If it's not printed on their monitor screen, they know nothing about it. So don't waste your time asking them any technical questions.
Google for it.
A quick look at Wikipedia, shows this:

Now, back to the real world.:-D:-D

Since 2007, SATA (Serial ATA) drives have become the industry standard for installation in NEW PC's.
The old, out of date, IDE drives have a max speed of 133, while SATA I drives transfer data at up to 1500 and SATA II drives can transfer data at a max of 3000.

Personally, I use only SATA II drives. My reasoning should be obvious.

Good Luck and Happy New Year!
The Shadow