Sata hard drive Question

[Nerwin]

Can a SATA drive work on a ATA-133 Interface? heres what the product specs says from my barebone system:

[SomeoneElse]

Nope, they're totally different interfaces.

If you want to get an S-ATA drive for your computer then you are also going to have to get an S-ATA Controller card.

[Nerwin]

But a 160 Gig ATA HDD will make my computer pretty fast, Right?

My computer will have a 3.2 GHZ P4 800MHZ FSB, 160 gig HDD 512 Of ram

Some day will be 2gigs of ram

[SomeoneElse]

I don't know how much of difference swapping your original hdd with a new 160GB hdd will make since I don't know the specs of the original hdd.

More ram will make your computer faster, especially 2GB

[Nerwin]

no i'm building my computer

[svasutin]

Go for the RAM,

If this is your first computer, start with an ATA/133 hard drive. Yes this forum is excellent for slipping drivers and mod'ing the XP disc, but you will want to focus on other details first.

A minimum spec for your hdd would be 7200 rpm and 4 MB buffer. Higher RPMs give better performance, larger caches only make a difference depending upon usage.

Also, don't place your Hdd(s) and cd/dvd on the same cable. Your hdds go on the primary IDE channel and you optical devices go on the other.

You might consider two hard drives, a 40-80 GB and a 120+ GB for everything else.

[Gee]

no i'm building my computer

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If you are building your computer, chances are your new motherboard will have SATA. Actually, your new motherboard will DEFINITELY have SATA.

Get a SATA drive.

[Nerwin]

No It dose no support SATA becasue it's a barebone system

[Technoguy]

well u will hardly notice ne difference in ata and SATA hdd's with same speed say like 7200rpm so well...u can have ATA also.if u really wanna speed up PC get a SATA controller card as @someoneelse suggested and get SATA 10,000 rpm hdd or SATA-2 specification hdd