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Originally Posted by Lasereth
SATA drives transfer data at the same rate that IDE hard drives do. The only way an SATA drive can be faster is if they're in a RAID, and even then, the performance increase is marginal.
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Well... theoretically, you'd get a *slight* increase in speed from the harddisk's buffer.
Now, if you want a *real* speed increase, get a newer "native SATA" harddisk, not an older one with a simple IDE-to-SATA translation chip. If you have a native SATA disk, with native command queuing (=more efficient transfers), you'll get really fast indeed. The new 250+ gig maxtors with 16mb buffer are supposed to be bloody fast because of that (and the memory).