RE: SATA vs UATA vs ...?

I have the pleasure of owning a WD Raptor SATA drive and highly

recommend one if you're going to go SATA. I have not tried installing
linux on this drive and do not know if there would be any conflicts, but
as for performance check these specs form SiSoftware SANDRA. 
36 GB WD Raptor SATA
< Benchmark Breakdown >
    Buffered Read:                 41 MB/s
    Sequential Read:               46 MB/s
    Random Read:                   28 MB/s
    Buffered Write:                76 MB/s
    Sequential Write:              47 MB/s
    Random Write:                  35 MB/s
    Average Access Time:           14 ms (estimated)

40 GB WD ATA
< Benchmark Breakdown >
    Buffered Read:                 23 MB/s
    Sequential Read:               37 MB/s
    Random Read:                   18 MB/s
    Buffered Write:                91 MB/s
    Sequential Write:              37 MB/s
    Random Write:                  27 MB/s
    Average Access Time:           29 ms (estimated)

80 GB Maxtor ATA
< Benchmark Breakdown >
    Buffered Read:                 23 MB/s
    Sequential Read:               28 MB/s
    Random Read:                   15 MB/s
    Buffered Write:                91 MB/s
    Sequential Write:              28 MB/s
    Random Write:                  22 MB/s
    Average Access Time:           31 ms (estimated) 
The purchase price was $99 with a $30 mail in rebate. It makes a great
Windows disk. I have one installation of Fedora on each of the other
slower drives. Heat might be a problem in a smaller case, you would need
to add a fan to be safe.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Joe
and Colleen Huber
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 9:05 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: SATA vs UATA vs ...?

I feel like an idiot asking this... throw caution to the wind... what's
the
difference between SATA and UATA 133?

Long story short - I bought a HP (arrived a few hours ago), I want to
put
some flavor of Linux on it, was concerned about voiding the warranty if
I do
that... so I went with a 40G drive (smallest available) and figured I
would
pull it out, stick it on the shelf and replace it with something else
(COSTCO is selling Maxtor 200G Ultra ATA 133s for 135.00). If I have any
hardware issues and need to avail myself of the warranty I'll just swap
the
original drive back in. The HP shipped with a SATA.

SATA and UATA "interchangable?"
Was a little overwhelmed looking at the install info on their site this
morning but I'm thinking Debian (I suppose with the orignal drive on the
shelf I can't mess to much up while learning...)

joe

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