esara123 said:
Could you please tell in order to have a SATA HD in my computer, do I
need a mother board supporting SATA connection?? Is it really very
noticable in term of speed and performace between SATA and regular IDE
hard drive??
SATA by itself does not improve performance of your hard drive(s).
However, if you add two identical drives and use RAID to stripe them,
you'll see a marked improvement in speed. You don't need SATA for that,
however. RAID striping will give you increased performance with EIDE as
well.
The primary advantage of SATA right now is getting the drives off your
IDE bus to free up slots for additional IDE drives. My motherboard has
SATA, so I'm running two 200 gig drives striped, a CDRW/DVD combo drive,
a DVD burner, a ZIP drive and a removeable IDE hard drive for backup.
The hard part was getting the system to boot to the SATA drives when the
removable IDE drive is installed. I had to do a BIOS upgrade to get
this support.
--Dave