Mattsblood opened this issue on Feb 21, 2005 ยท 31 posts
svdl posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 2:59 PM
No, you can safely boot from a SATA drive or a SATA RAID array, my newest system is configured that way. Most SATA drives still run at 7,200 RPM, two months ago at least. Then the only non-SCSI 10,000 RPM drives where those WD Raptors. Serial ATA uses narrow cables, EIDE (or Parallel ATA) uses 40 or 80 pin flatcables. There are converters you can use to connect a PATA drive to a SATA cable. There is a difference in maximum speed. Parallel ATA maxes out at 133 MB/s (Ultra DMA 133), Serial ATA 1 runs at 150 MB/s and the new Serial ATA 2 runs at 300 MB/s. Of course, these are the maximum transfer rates of the controllers. No disk can reach those rates physically (yet!).
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