The pci bus is what held sata back, ide or sata you can still only use as much as the pci bus will give you.
If the new sata controllers use pci express for sata2 there should be a big improvement.

You will notice the difference between an old IDE hard drive and SATA drive. However, you are not going to see much between an ATA100/133 and SATA 150.

tbh, i dont think your gonna even notice the difference. ive got the same setup as my friend basically except he went for diff g-card and a sata hard drive. cant tell any difference what-so-ever

im sooo tempted to get a nice big 300gb sata drive.
but be better/quicker than my current 40gb ide

just plug and go, you cant go wrong :) Im pretty sure there is NO setup required at all, just plug it in and its there in my computer ready to go

ah

that pic is an IDE Bart

no jumper settings with SATA

[Edited on 06-01-2006 by Voyto]

I've got two Maxtor 250GB SATA 150 drives in my system running them on separate buses. Looking at the drives their doesn't seem to be any jumpers to change. I just plugged them in and work fine.

sorry, yes is the answer:



That SATA connection on the left looks huge.. i thought they was only an inch long at the most?

[Edited on 06-01-2006 by Bart]

ive got 4 sata ports on my mobo, but im currently using 2x ide hard drives (quite old drives).

Do you know if theres any configuration for the SATA drives, i.e setting the 'jumpers' to master and slave?

Is it the same? ive never looked at them before.