P4PE and S-ATA harddisks

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

I'm wondering up upgrade my harddisk, but all new disks are S-ATA
Does the S-ATA on P4PE work OK (can I boot from a S-ATA disk, what
speed, will Win98se and WinXP work OK with harddisk at full speed)

 

[sbb78247]

I'm wondering up upgrade my harddisk, but all new disks are S-ATA
Does the S-ATA on P4PE work OK (can I boot from a S-ATA disk, what
speed, will Win98se and WinXP work OK with harddisk at full speed)

I don't know about your board, but the p4pe that i have/had (in storage now)
did not have SATA ports. If you do have the ports then go ahead and use
them. The speed increase is there but not as dramatic as say going from
udma33 to udma133. If you don't have the ports onboard, then get a pci add
in card if you want this upgrade. Then you can have RAID functions like
striping, mirroring or both. I run a stripped set of 80g SATA on a P4P800
and o/c the cpu from 2.8 to 3.14 and it really moves for the few games and
editing tasks that i do. But remember, your mileage may vary.

Shannon

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

sbb78247 skrev:

I don't know about your board, but the p4pe that i have/had (in storage now)
did not have SATA ports. If you do have the ports then go ahead and use

I have a version with a combined S-ATA and raid controller on-board.
Havn't got the details (if it's two S-ATA, two IDE and one S-ATA or).

them. The speed increase is there but not as dramatic as say going from
udma33 to udma133. If you don't have the ports onboard, then get a pci add

The P4PE does only have UDMA66 i think so S-ATA might be a bit faster.
I was just curious on if I could boot from the S-ATA disk w/o trouble,
and still use one or two IDE controllers (need for DVD-writer).

 

[sbb78247]

sbb78247 skrev:


I have a version with a combined S-ATA and raid controller on-board.
Havn't got the details (if it's two S-ATA, two IDE and one S-ATA or).


The P4PE does only have UDMA66

It does UDMA100

i think so S-ATA might be a bit faster.

Maybe if you are using a slower drive already (5400 rpm or a 7200 w/2m
cache)

I was just curious on if I could boot from the S-ATA disk w/o trouble,
and still use one or two IDE controllers (need for DVD-writer).

Yep, should work just fine. You will just have to set the boot order. If
you have all those goodies already, I would definitely turn on the RAID and
use it to the hilt.

Shannon