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Old 09-25-2006, 08:49 PM
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so what's the difference btwn SATA/PATA?

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Both it and the pricegrabber one above it are for the PATA interface. Fry's Outpost currently has the SATA version of the 750GB drive for $299 (regular $399) with free shipping. Follow the link above for the 400GB PATA drives and these will be listed too.

That is 40 cents per GB instead of 28 cents per GB on the 400GB PATA drives, but at $20 more than the 750GB PATA version, well worth it IMHO.
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Old 09-25-2006, 09:48 PM
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so what's the difference btwn SATA/PATA?
Basically... PATA is the old 40-pin, 40/80-wire + 4-wire EIDE interface and SATA is the newer interface that uses fewer wires for data. try this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
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Sata is definantly prefereable. No worrying about setting master/slave, and I've bent PATA connecter pins, which isnt an issues with SATA. Also better data rates.
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plus better airflow when you cram 8 drives into a case...
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