Sata Hard Drive Vs. Pata

[wingzrow]

About to upgrade my 6 year old Pata hard drive to a new sata hard drive. Does this matter to the emulator at all? Do you guys think i will get better performance with a sata?

[ppnndd]

no........except you may load faster

[maitkarro]

and with a 32MB cache or more if there is - fastest loading times can give a hard drive, after that it depends fragmentation of files in hard drive and then it depends on how good is you memory and motherboard to get the fastest loading times.

[Bacon]

Ditch SATA and buy a decent sized SSD, keep the PATA and use it to store all your media, and use the SSD for the o/s, dolphin, and other games, i guaruntee youll be satisfied 10 fold compared to using a SATA. You don't need to worry about defrag with a SSD either.

[w4ffles]

Ditch SATA and buy a decent sized SSD, keep the PATA and use it to store all your media, and use the SSD for the o/s, dolphin, and other games, i guaruntee youll be satisfied 10 fold compared to using a SATA. You don't need to worry about defrag with a SSD either.

Currently. "decent-sized" SSD's (40GB - 64GB minimum for a boot drive) cost well over $100 USD. Seeing as how the OP is upgrading to SATA after 6 years, it doesn't sound very financially viable. Sure they're damn fast, but it's not for everyone (yet) because of the prices.

The hard drive is the slowest component in a computer. Like maikarro said, you will notice quicker boot times in your OS and applications, but after that, it's all on your CPU, RAM, GPU, etc.

[EnSAn]

ahh I remember when PATA used to be called EIDE Damn you SATA. Why did you have to change my other acronyms too?

[w4ffles]

I still refer to it as IDE most of the time. =)