Well, the speed of the disk IO operations does make a difference. Most of the SATA drives are faster than the ATA-100 drives. However, whether SATA would net any speed increase in your particular system configuration I couldn't say.
(I have two 500G SATA internal drives in the Power Mac G5 already ... one is configured as the startup and main working drive, the other serves duty for quick backup and Photoshop scratch space. I can see the difference in performance when I'm working on very large files between the scratch being on an SATA internal drive vs being on a FireWire 800 connected external drive.) My comment presumed that you already had adequate disk space on a fast drive. For the startup drive, I offload data to a secondary drive whenever free space drops below about 30-40%. I find that too little free disk space, for today's modern disk-based OS systems (UNIX, Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X are all full-time VM systems ...) and slow drives have a huge effect on overall system performance. Godfrey On Mar 2, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Markus Maurer wrote: > The type of connection (SATA or ATA) does not matter speedwise > Boris, it's > the (empty) new harddisk that makes the difference :-) > greetings > >> Thanks, Markus, this is very valuable suggestion. >> >> I have two hard disks (120 and 160 GB or so), but both are older ATA >> models. Having a S-ATA connection in my box made me think I should >> buy a >> S-ATA disk for speed. I may end up doing both - upgrading the >> memory and >> adding a disk. >> >>> A fast (second hardisk) like the new Samsung 400GB series would >>> be a much >>> better investment at about the same price IMHO. >>> You will not see a lot of improvment going from 1.5gb to 2.5 gb ram. >>> greetings >>> >>>> Mo's betta. I have 3G in my desktop system, am considering >>>> expanding >>>> it to 5... >> >>>>> Godfrey, I have 1.5 GB RAM. My brother is going to a trip >>>>> abroad and I >>>>> am asking him to bring me a bit more RAM, probably another Gig. It >>>>> would seem it might improve things a bit. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
