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***glc*** · 03-12-2006, 06:06 AM

There are still current benefits even if there's really no noticeable speed difference. The cabling is a lot smaller and neater. There are no master/slave configuration issues, one drive per cable. SATA does not have the same "one way" issues as IDE - no more slow data transfers between 2 drives on the same cable. In this respect, you can look at SATA as kind of a "poor man's SCSI".

03-12-2006, 06:06 AM	#16
*glc* Forum Administrator Staff Premium Member Join Date: May 2000 Location: Joplin MO Posts: 37,688	There are still current benefits even if there's really no noticeable speed difference. The cabling is a lot smaller and neater. There are no master/slave configuration issues, one drive per cable. SATA does not have the same "one way" issues as IDE - no more slow data transfers between 2 drives on the same cable. In this respect, you can look at SATA as kind of a "poor man's SCSI".