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Originally Posted by Jace
I did a lot of reading on this, plus trying it personally, and you can't have an IDE master with a sata slave in winxp
your bios will recognize it, but that is about it....i tried for 4 hours the other night
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Actually WinXP will do that just fine as I am an example typing here with 120GB IDE master and an 80GB SATA slave + another 120GB IDE slave and running on WinXP.
If you are having a problem in XP it is due to your BIOS settings and not the OS.
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once I hooked up the sata as a slave and encoded one 50minute avi, I noticed maybe a 5 minute difference in encoding time, not enough to get me all wet in the pants over sata
I am not the only one noticing this either, if you check out many encoding forums everyone is noticing the same thing....the ide is rated at 133/MBps and the sata was rated at 150MBps...woopity doo, again, not worth the hassle of switching drives all around
and no, my board doesn't support sata 2.0, and I am fine with that
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I think you may have missed Inabon's point. He is talking about
10,000 RPM SATA drives. Most of what you will find on the open consumer market are either 5,400 or 7,200 RPM SATA - the 10K drives are a bit harder to find and there is a significant price jump ($1/GB for 10K rpm versus ~$0.45/GB for 7.2K rpm on a 160GB for example). 10K SATA drives basically are considered "server grade" and trust me, you *will* notice a massive difference in your computer performance.