canukistan_2342 said:
In comparison, if you've got some old ATA66 drive and you upgrade to an ATA100 you get a 34% speed upgrade, or a 51% speed increase if you can use an ATA133 drive. Even the bump from ATA100 to ATA133 is a 25% increase. So upgrading your ATA drives will always result in a signifigant speed increase. I guess you have to decide if 11% is signifigant to you.
Uh...these percentage increases do not directly correlate to the precentage increase of IDE to SATA.
What you're saying is like taking a 386 and upping it to a PIII, and saying the 400% increase is better than the 15% increase you'd get from upping a PIII-400 to a PIII-800.
If he had a ATA-66 drive, and he moved to SATA, his increase in speed would be nearly 130%.
You're not going to get better performance than a SATA drive by upgrading a ATA66 drive to ATA133. No. Shame on you. Go back to the statistical-distortion department from which you crawled!
canukistan_2342 said:
But SATA is the way of the future. I'm sure that in the future they will go faster than 150mb/second. For now their main advantage is in their ease of use.
1. The 13% increase in speed is only part of the advantages of SATA
2. SATA's are becoming the standard for HDDs. Most major PC manufacturers have already stopped issuing servers and even desktops with EIDE drives, instead using SATAs.
3. SATA's are more reliable, and are hot-swapable.
Lastly, the next generation of SATA drives (SATA-II) is about to come out, and sports speeds nearly twice as fast as current SATA and IDE technology.