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I need to replace my DVD drive which packed up yesterday. My current drive is a Pata drive. My motherboard supports SATA & my hard drives are both SATA. I was wondering what benefits I will get from using a SATA DVD drive?
You will get the normal SATA benefits of neater cabling etc.
I don't know if there are any performance or reliability advantages, especially if only the DVD is on the one IDE connector.
performance shouldn't be any different, physical limits of DVD drives are much lower than the bus speed.
As well as the cabling changes, you may find you can disable your PATA controller on your motherboard. If you can, you will find that both Vista and XP boot a bit faster.
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I will have 2 SATA Dvd drives. How will I know which one is which?
I also have a floppy drive is this a PATA device? If I disabled the PATA controller would this affect the floppy drive?
Why do they boot faster. Sorry if it is a silly question????Originally Posted by badass
As well as the cabling changes, you may find you can disable your PATA controller on your motherboard. If you can, you will find that both Vista and XP boot a bit faster.
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1 less driver to load and 1 less storage controller to initialise and scan.
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good point, i suppose that SATA are faster to initalise cos they only have one drive per cable while PATA have two.
Just make sure you have the controller's driver handy when you come to reinstall Windows (I keep a copy on a USB key) otherwise you might run into trouble.
Floppy is its own connector style.
For disabling it all depends on the motherboard chipset. Sometimes the FDD is tied to the same chipset as the IDE, so disabling that will disable the FDD.
Although from memory you can have IDE and FDD disabled/enabled independent of each other.
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