IDE interfaces face imminent extinction

Saule said:
I have an 80Gb Sata hard drive in my machine:) and IDE cdrom and dvdrw drives. Oh and a stiffy as well:p

I didn't install the hard drive in my machine --> was already installed when I bought it. But I hear that the SATA hard drive detection in the bios is different from an IDE. How so?:confused:
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Jumpers aren't such an issue with SATA :p
 
But isn't the physical capabilities of the drive the limiting issue at the moment? If it is, then the 3GB/s is ftl. (Not that I wouldn't mind a SATA drive...)
 
Conspirator said:
But isn't the physical capabilities of the drive the limiting issue at the moment? If it is, then the 3GB/s is ftl. (Not that I wouldn't mind a SATA drive...)
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I doubt it, I think modern hard drives can easily bypass the 3GB/s bandwidth that SATA uses :)
 
i would have preferred it if you would rather point out a list of drives whereby an ide interface is the bottleneck, but anyway

raptor x is a good starting point
from wdc.com
Transfer Rates
Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) 1.5 Gb/s (Max)
Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk) 84 MB/s (Sustained)

woopdeedoo...(bear in mind this drive has a sata 150 interface, so that 1.5Gb/s max is the theoretical max.)

so sata is useful IF the data is in CACHE already, then it may reach 1.5Gb/s (theorectically). If not, we trundle along at 84MB/s.

No current drive requires a sata interface. reading from the platters is still so silly slow that ide (ata100/ata133) is still fast enough not to be a bottleneck.

I fear people will think sata dvd drives will be quicker too...or maybe those USB external floppy drives...hey, dont usb mice click at least 10x faster than ps2 mice?

link: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=189&language=en#jump11

if you are going to reply, make it a few paragraphs please.
 
Hopefully motherboards will keep the old connector for quite some time. It would be a pain if everyone had to upgrade their optical drive for no real reason...

They probably will, considering they've still got floppy connectors.
 
Renamed20070410 said:
you have an odd way of admitting your errors.
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Read the post, you'll see I admitted that you were right (if that's what you wanted to see so badly) :D

I don't mind admitting a mistake that I made ;) I just vaguely recalled some magazine doing an article about SATA 6Gb/s and saying that there would be major speed increases because hard drives' speed still isn't being fully utilized. Seems they were wrong, I never checked their claims :D
 
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It's about damn time, I've always said the person who designed the IDE ports is sitting in a padded cell laughing his arse off at everyone using it.
 
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