EIDE vs. S ATA? More Questions

[rms]

I would be extremely surprised if there even was a 0.1% difference in

speed.

The limiting factor for HDDs is the sustained off-the-platter speed, which is under half the speed of an ATA100 or SATA link.

I don't think transfer speed is the issue. Does SATA boot faster ? One poster says yes. Does SATA have less cpu utilitization ? On another forum the answer is also yes. These are the questions that need addressing.

I happen to have 2 IDE drives and 2 serielle adaptors for my Abit NF7-S v2 board. One of the drives has a complete XP installation on it. Can I move this drive to SATA without reinstalling XP, and what's the procedure ?

rms

 

[John H]

moved my 40 gig XP installation to a Serial Maxtor using maxblast Worked right away.

I assume other manufacturers have similar utilities on their sites for download

It's faster, but not a fair comparison with my 3 year old 40 gig HD vs the new Maxtor 120 !

"rms" wrote:

I would be extremely surprised if there even was a 0.1% difference in speed. The limiting factor for HDDs is the sustained off-the-platter speed, which is under half the speed of an ATA100 or SATA link.

I don't think transfer speed is the issue. Does SATA boot faster ? One poster says yes. Does SATA have less cpu utilitization ? On another forum the answer is also yes. These are the questions that need addressing.

I happen to have 2 IDE drives and 2 serielle adaptors for my Abit NF7-S v2 board. One of the drives has a complete XP installation on it. Can I move this drive to SATA without reinstalling XP, and what's the procedure

?

rms

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[David Maynard]

rms wrote:

I would be extremely surprised if there even was a 0.1% difference in

speed.

The limiting factor for HDDs is the sustained off-the-platter speed, which
is under half the speed of an ATA100 or SATA link.

I don't think transfer speed is the issue. Does SATA boot faster ?

Why would you think that how fast the drive can provide data, I.E. it's transfer speed, would not be the issue with how fast windows boots?

One
poster says yes. Does SATA have less cpu utilitization ? On another forum the answer is also yes. These are the questions that need addressing.

I happen to have 2 IDE drives and 2 serielle adaptors for my Abit NF7-S v2 board. One of the drives has a complete XP installation on it. Can I move this drive to SATA without reinstalling XP, and what's the procedure ?

rms