New Seagate Barracuda 160 - UDMA or SATA

[John]

I am going to get a new Seagate Barracuda 160 and am not sure whether
to stick with UDMA (with rounded cables) or get a SATA drive. Iam
using an ASUS P4PE (which has a Promise PDC20376) which can use
either. I don't need any extra speed just reliability. What would
people recommend

 

[J. Clarke]

I am going to get a new Seagate Barracuda 160 and am not sure whether
to stick with UDMA (with rounded cables) or get a SATA drive. Iam
using an ASUS P4PE (which has a Promise PDC20376) which can use
either. I don't need any extra speed just reliability. What would
people recommend

From a reliability viewpoint it's not going to make any difference. Seagate
may have tuned the seek pattern on the UDMA drive for quiet and the SATA
for speed--some manufacturers seem to have been doing that with some
drives--but it's not certain.