IDE vs. SATA

cyberneticimplant · Post by **cyberneticimplant** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:50 pm

What kind of performance gain can I expect by upgrading from an IDE hard drive to a SATA hard drive. I know things will load faster but can I expect higher FPS? I currently have a WD800JB drive, so it isn't an ancient drive.

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DaIceMan · Post by **DaIceMan** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:00 pm

I was told the difference isn't great, until you get into the bigger drivers. Small-ish drives will pretty much perform the same, given the same specs.

Obviously, an 8mb or 16mb cache will perform better than a 2mb cache.

Same with speed. A 7200rpm drive will show a little better access time than a 5400rpm drive.

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:38 am

There will be no difference in FPS of games, the only difference will be load times.

But for you to notice that much of a difference in the load times you'd have to get a much bigger drive (~200GB) so as the read and write speeds are more than your current HD.

So like Ice said, if you get an 80GB SATA they will pretty much perform the same.

Dan

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:46 am

agree with all above

I have a 250gb ide and a 250gb sata and the sata drive is faster loading, but will not increase game performance.

You would need a better video card to increase fps ( mostly - sometimes cpu, and memory upgrades will help a bit too )

Mike

Oh I use the IDE for windows and the sata for the swap file and just data. i guess I am a bit backwards ;)