Before I go ahead and buy my hard drive , I have one quick question. Will there be a performance increase if I went with SATA once I have actually opened an application? (Faster rendering times, or a higher frame rate in games) Thanks, and sorry for the silly question ;)
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Jump to PostYou will only experience a performance increase in circumstances where you are accessing data on the drive. Games will not benefit other than with quicker load times. Applications such as rendering will only benefit if the data files being worked on (and the resultant calculations) are too large to be …
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For some tasks, the faster drive operation can make a lot of difference. Video editing is perhaps the most commonly used such task.
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How do the SATA compare to EIDE on a Raid Controller
Raid striped 133's get you 266 +\- which I use for my video work...
I have not had any experience with the SATA's yet...
Jump to PostSATA's are alot faster overall but unless your motherboard has SATA capability and move alot of massive files you will not see any huge increase in preformance.
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