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Sata Hard Drive Vs. Pata - wingzrow - 11-28-2009
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?
RE: Sata Hard Drive Vs. Pata - ppnndd - 11-28-2009
no........except you may load faster
RE: Sata Hard Drive Vs. Pata - maitkarro - 11-28-2009
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.
RE: Sata Hard Drive Vs. Pata - Bacon - 11-29-2009
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.
RE: Sata Hard Drive Vs. Pata - w4ffles - 12-03-2009
(11-29-2009, 05:54 AM)Bacon Wrote: 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.
RE: Sata Hard Drive Vs. Pata - EnSAn - 12-04-2009
ahh I remember when PATA used to be called EIDE
Damn you SATA. Why did you have to change my other acronyms too?
RE: Sata Hard Drive Vs. Pata - w4ffles - 12-04-2009
I still refer to it as IDE most of the time. =)