sparx 0 Report post Posted November 4, 2005 Hello all !I need to increase my hard disktorage capacity and therefore have decided to go in for new HDD. I have an Intel D865 GBF mother-board and a P4-C running @ 2.4 GHz with Win XP as the primary OS. Currently I have one 40 GB HDD set as Primary Master, one 20 GB as Primary Slave, two optical drives ( DVD / CD writer ) as Secondary Master / Slave. I intend to remove one of the optical drives or if I find someone willing to take the 20 GB HDD, out it goes.Question1: Will a new SATA HDD function and co-exist with an existing PATA HDD ?Question2: Will I need to make any changes in the power supply?Question3: Will there be any difference in performance between a SATA and PATA HDD of the same capacity?TIA ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Retaining 0 Report post Posted November 4, 2005 1. The SATA drive would show up as a separate drive from the PATA (drive D or similar), as far as I know there is no way to RAID a PATA and a SATA drive together.2. Hard to tell, as it depends on what you have, you might just have to try it and see, or remove an older drive to reduce the drain.3. Although SATA is faster than PATA, the speed really probably depends more on the drives themselves. A slow SATA drive is still no faster than a slow PATA drive, SATA just has the capability to be faster. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sunshine the werewolf 0 Report post Posted November 4, 2005 Hello all ! I need to increase my hard disktorage capacity and therefore have decided to go in for new HDD. I have an Intel D865 GBF mother-board and a P4-C running @ 2.4 GHz with Win XP as the primary OS. Currently I have one 40 GB HDD set as Primary Master, one 20 GB as Primary Slave, two optical drives ( DVD / CD writer ) as Secondary Master / Slave. I intend to remove one of the optical drives or if I find someone willing to take the 20 GB HDD, out it goes. Question1: Will a new SATA HDD function and co-exist with an existing PATA HDD ? Question2: Will I need to make any changes in the power supply? Question3: Will there be any difference in performance between a SATA and PATA HDD of the same capacity? TIA ! 1064328559[/snapback] o to best buy and get a 160gig for 40 bucks, or whatever the ridiculously low price is. then sell your 2 old drives on ebay and make that 40 bucks back. you could get a sata, but then your dishing out a little more cash, and you wont notice a performance boost at all. no need to upgrade your psu if you toss those old drives out and get a single drive. plus, your computer will be quieter also. capacity doesnt have any affect on performance. just get drive from best buy. dont buy a used or white label drive online. spend the 10 bucks for a new drive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kam1405241509 0 Report post Posted November 4, 2005 Hi sparx, Question1: Will a new SATA HDD function and co-exist with an existing PATA HDD ? 1064328559[/snapback] Yep, no probs. If you have the appropriate PATA & SATA controllers (either onboard or on PCI) it's just a matter of pluggin them all in. The OS sees them as normal drives .. except Linux which treats SATA drives as SCSI ones, but that's another matter! Question2: Will I need to make any changes in the power supply? 1064328559[/snapback] Nope, often SATA drives have both the old Molex PATA style power connectors, along with the new thin SATA power ones too :-). Even if there's only the SATA ones, convertion is simple (either DIY or I think I've seen many dirt cheap convertors online) but that's probably not necessary at all anyway! Question3: Will there be any difference in performance between a SATA and PATA HDD of the same capacity? 1064328559[/snapback] It depends on the drive's model (I've seen a review of a PATA drive beating out high-end SATA ones in certain benches!) wrt how the cache algorithms are defined & how much cache etc ... and also on the usage model wrt if it's a server then maybe the larger queue algorithms of SATA may be handy. For desktops, the NCQ queue algorithms may be handy in getting the right sequence of data off the disk in terms of what's closest to the head at the moment etc. It's best to check out & compare individual models. WD raptors are SATA only and are rated as the highest performing desktop drives ... but I don't have access to one so I couldn't say for sure ;-). Also, if depends on what you are going to do (video needs high bandwidth, whereas gaming often needs fast access times along with a reasonable amount of bandwidth, etc etc). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kam1405241509 0 Report post Posted November 4, 2005 2. Oh I see you mean power consumption, doh, sorry. Well you could always power it up with a cheap 2nd PSU or even an external one (I use a laptop-style PSU for my ext USB convertor etc!).Also I forgot to mention that NCQ (& some other neat features) is NOT on all SATA drives, or even on SATAII drives, which don't even have to be at 300MB/s either `... there's a whole load of can-o-worms on this! I think anand or ace had a good explanation a few months back. Basically SATAII are a set of recommendations, not a standard or anything .. I think it is a new name for the working group too. SATA-300 etc basically states the speed, and the manuf's must state the features separately. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted January 6, 2010 Can Sata and Pata Hard disk work togetherCan SATA And PATA HDD Work In Conjunction?HI All I have one hard disk of pata with 80 gb capacity and I buy one more of 320gb of Pata. So my query is that is is possible that both of them work together or not. -question by Virpura Digvijay Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted January 25, 2010 Can Sata and Pata Hard disk work togetherCan SATA And PATA HDD Work In Conjunction? I have one hard disk of pata with 80 gb capacity and I buy one moreOf 320gb of Pata. So my query is that is is possible that both of themWork together or not. -question by Virpura Digvijay-- Yes, both PATA HDDs will work together, even on a split cable, just ensure the jumpers on the HDD are set to Master / Slave ( usually it will show you how to do that on the topside of the HDD ) then check the BOIS settings to ensure the HDD is set to Cable Select. When the above is done you will need to format the new HDD to NTFS or FAT whatever allocation table you are using is upto you though NTFS is reccomended, this will allow you to use the new drive. -reply by Pete Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
