If your cpu board wants SATA drives and you have to work with ATA (parallel) will this result in slowness ?
has less than a gig of memory. Still, I was wondering when I saw that the board BioStar P4M80-M4 takes SATA and
Device Mgr says it has a Maxtor 4R080J0 hard drive (which appears to be parallel ATA)
So is this sort of mismatch likely to result in slowness ?
thanks
Answers:
ATA will not directly fit with SATA (learned the hard way). SATA is faster, the cable is smaller so it dosent desrupt air flow.
Yes, PATA is much slower than SATA. Adding more memory would be a big help as well.
If the drive is a 5400 rpm, maybe. not enough to notice unless you are playing high end games or doing alot of graphical designing.
Other then that, the slowness shouldnt matter.
If this is a 7200 rpm, maybe.. but not as bad as the 5400
But things should load normally.. as you shouldnt see much of a difference.
Hope this helps
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