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« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2005, 08:14:23 AM »
The 'standard' is faster ober...the drives aren't yet! Why would changing the interface alone bring any non-negligable proformance boost? Though i'll give you that it is a better standard, but to me and most of us, it doesn't really matter, i've been working with IDE drives since i was 12 years old.
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« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2005, 02:24:21 PM »
Well i see obers point though. Its like staying on a atari instead of ps2 because u've used it all your life.

Thnx for the info ober, going to look into it some and decide if thats my path.
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« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2005, 02:31:20 PM »
Anytime... anytime.
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« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2005, 05:53:57 PM »
If I could play the same games on the atari that I can on my PS2 guess what i'd be using!!
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« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2005, 09:20:47 PM »
You're a stick in the mud.
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« Reply #20 on: May 30, 2005, 02:36:20 PM »
No, we aren't seeing near the theoretical 133MB/sec that PATA allows, but Ober is right: run a SATA150 against a PATA133 and tell me which drive gives better throughput. I've done it myself and I'm never looking back...

BTW, nice system RoD. :)
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« Reply #21 on: May 30, 2005, 06:29:16 PM »
I've never understood rounded IDE cables.

The 40-wire flat IDE cables were replaced by 80-wire where each data wire is separated by earth wires to reduce noice. How can round IDE cables even work? The interference must be worse than in the 40-wire cables!

The development of buses is interesting. First, serial was replaced by parallel communication to increase speed. Now, to increace speed even more, parallel communication must be replaced by serial once again.
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« Reply #22 on: May 31, 2005, 12:23:28 PM »
Sang, I believe the way rounded 80-pin PATA cables work is each signal wire is twisted with its neighboring ground wire to create 40 pairs. Evidently, this works just as good for reducing signal noise as separating each signal wire with a ground wire.
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« Reply #23 on: May 31, 2005, 03:55:35 PM »
OK, that makes sense.
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« Reply #24 on: August 02, 2005, 06:03:12 PM »
Just like ethernet cabling :)

I would say that you can stick to IDE if you want, but SATA has some nice features to add.  I have yet to see any 10k RPM PATA drives out there ( I may be wrong ), but those 10k raptor SATAs are very nice and actually do help loading speed a good deal.  A friend of mine has dual raptors and he says he notices a good 4-5 second decrease in win xp load times as well as descreased load times in any other app he uses.  

Plus the cords are much nicer to work with... except they have a nasty tendency to pull out of the socket easy.  Otherwise I think SATA is the way to go.

Otherwise looks like a nice system :)
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« Reply #25 on: August 03, 2005, 07:51:49 AM »
I've never had a problem with my SATA cables coming out of the socket.
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« Reply #26 on: August 03, 2005, 04:05:16 PM »
Mine are usually a bit loose and hard to get in at an angle :) some cables seem looser than others, but its good to hear yours are fine :).
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