Carl Lowenstein wrote:
The disk drives are about the same price. In fact, I just looked
again at frys.com and found that they have 500GB Maxtor drives in
either SATA or PATA flavor for the same $99.
New construction should be also about the same price, possibly a bit
less for SATA because the construction overhead for the 4-wire cable
is less than for the 40 (which is really 80) cable. Requires a custom
logic chip, but they are cheap to produce once the design has been
finished.
If you are adding or replacing an internal disk in your existing
system, SATA will most likely not work because the motherboard wasn't
designed that way. (My small Dell server just gets in under the wire,
having the classical 4 PATA ports and also 2 SATA).
It isn't a problem of expense, just of being compatible with an
existing system.
carl
I think it was merely about a year ago that the SATA drives were still
more expensive than their PATA counterparts. Perhaps in another couple
of years the PATA drives will be more expensive than the SATA drives.
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