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Originally Posted by Lasereth
I remember a couple of years ago THG benchmarked SATA versus old ATA and both were the exact same speed. The cable allows faster bandwidth but in the end they're the same. What DOES make a difference is the fact that most newer and faster hard drives just happen to be the SATA interface...
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I was a longtime PATA holdout, but the last two years have seen measurable speed improvements in mid-range drives and motherboard performance. Single drives, especially those using perpendicular recording, now benefit from the additional SATA bandwidth. If there's any chance the 2nd drive would go on the same PATA channel there would be a fairly large gain using SATA for the 2nd drive.
There are still reasons to buy PATA drives, but not many.
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