IDE VS. normal mechanical drive

[lookpuppy]

Wich is faster. nd whats the difference in speeds, and or limitations

[Canada EH]

SATA is faster with 7200rpm hdd

https://www.diffen.com/difference/IDE_vs_SATA

 

Speed	data transfers at the rate of up to 133MB/s	Data transfers at the rate of up to 6 Gb/s

 

 

 

 

 

[manikyath]

IDE is the old, SATA is the new.

 

its like asking the difference between a steam train and a diesel train.

[Crunchy Dragon]

SATA is newer, faster, and better.

[flibberdipper]

5 minutes ago, RandomGuy13 said:

IDE is limited to 16.6Mbps

SATA is limited to 600Mbps

Uh, no, UDMA7 topped off at 1064Mbps, not 16.6.

 

#DoubleEdit because Random edited his and I didn't bother converting lel

[Canada EH]

1 minute ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Uh, no, UDMA7 topped off at 133Mbps, not 16.6.

edit is great, randomguy edited his post

but everyone just copied me!

[flibberdipper]

1 minute ago, Canada EH said:

edit is great, randomguy edited his post

but everyone just copied me!

lel I didn't even see your post.

 

1 minute ago, RandomGuy13 said:

Yea I was half way through converting it from bytes to bits, corrected now. 133MB = 1064Mb

GG. I just managed to notice I used the wrong unit but o well

[Canada EH]

4 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

el I didn't even see your post.

sure sure

[jj9987]

Just something to add - IDE requires master/slave setup as well, SATA does not have such problems.

[lookpuppy]

21 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

Just something to add - IDE requires master/slave setup as well, SATA does not have such problems.

Explain what master/slave setups

[3 Lions]

59 minutes ago, Fruitsnacc said:

Explain what master/slave setups

It's pretty self-explanatory really. Think of it has master-cylinder and slave-cylinder, the master is more important and does more 'work' while the slave is less important and basically assists the master in doing it's job properly.  

[jj9987]

1 hour ago, Fruitsnacc said:

Explain what master/slave setups

I'm lazy, so I just Googled this - https://computer.howstuffworks.com/ide4.htm

[dalekphalm]

6 hours ago, Fruitsnacc said:

Explain what master/slave setups

Basically it was the way the motherboard would interface with, and organize, HDD's.

 

The "Master" drive would be the primary drive, and would boot first. The "Slave" would be reserved for either a secondary storage drive, or, more often, a CD-ROM drive.

 

Each HDD would have a set of pins, and a jumper, and you would have to designate which HDD was Master, and which was Slave.

 

"Newer" IDE drives would include a "Cable Select" jumper setting. A standard IDE cable had 2x connectors on the cable, so you could connect 2x HDD's (or 1x HDD and 1x Optical Drive, etc) at once. The one at the end was the Master, and the one in the middle was the Slave.

 

Using "Cable Select" jumper settings would honour that arrangement. Using "Master" and "Slave" jumper settings would override the order in which they were attached via the cable.

 

Needless to say, it's an unnecessary hassle.