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First of all, let's look at the test bed:
Motherboard: Shuttle AS45GTR
Processor: P4 2.4 @ 2.53
Hard Drive (used for the tests): WD 100GB
Special Edition
Video Card: ATI AIW Radeon 7500
Memory: Corsair XMS3200
We will be using the following tools to measure
performance:
HDTach
ATTO Disk Benchmark
Sandra File System Benchmark
Winbench99
HDTach
ATA Benchmark Results
SATA Benchmark Results
SATA was only slightly better on drive seek
times. Overall, the drive performance was better in ATA mode.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
ATA Benchmark Results
SATA Benchmark Results
The ATTO results were very surprising.
There was a significant decrease in performance when running the drive in a
Serial ATA setup.
SANDRA
ATA Results
SATA Results
Again, the drive performance was slightly better
in ATA mode.
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