Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PATA performance

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Samstag, 28. Juni 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> I've got a little question.  Here I've got a PC with two 40GB hard
> disks, a CD-burner and a DVD-burner, all PATA. Now I'm running out of
> disk space and I'm thinking about ways to increase it:
>
> 1. I could replace the older 40GB disk with a new model but I'd hate to
> trash it because it's working alright.
>
> 2. I could replace the really old and rather useless CD-burner with a
> disk. However, that would mean I'd have to attach the DVD-burner and
> one of the disks to the same controller. Now I'm asking myself (and
> you ;) ) how that would affect performance. 

wikipedia can answer that.

But why not a cheap sata controler and a nice big sata disk? They are cheaper 
now than PATA disks.
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