Simviation Forum - IDE or SATA

Jan 21^st, 2009 at 12:23pm

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Hi all, I have been using and flying fs9 for many years now and totaly enjoy it. I also have been using the simviation site for lots of great info and downloads

. At preasant I have an IDE DVD burner and an IDE hard drive, if I switch both to SATA will I notice any improvement in the IN Flight of fs9? A reply would be much appreciated.

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Reply #1 - Jan 21^st, 2009 at 1:58pm

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As far as I can tell, you wouldn't notice a difference between IDE and SATA drives as far as performance goes... Sure, SATA can support the faster RPM speeds of newer hard drives (10,000/15,000RPM), but that shouldn't effect game performance whatsoever.

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Reply #2 - Jan 21^st, 2009 at 2:02pm

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I heard coments around and my own humble experience SATA is faster HDD and cd/dvd rom ..

but the thin red cable..ahh it unplug and sometimes causes troubles,they should invent somekind of hook to hold the cable harder to the motherboard and devices

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Reply #3 - Jan 21^st, 2009 at 5:55pm

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Isak922 wrote on Jan 21^st, 2009 at 1:58pm:

As far as I can tell, you wouldn't notice a difference between IDE and SATA drives as far as performance goes... Sure, SATA can support the faster RPM speeds of newer hard drives (10,000/15,000RPM), but that shouldn't effect game performance whatsoever.

http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?s=&showtopic=241380&view=findpost&p=1530076

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Reply #4 - Jan 21^st, 2009 at 7:47pm

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NickN wrote on Jan 21^st, 2009 at 5:55pm:

Isak922 wrote on Jan 21^st, 2009 at 1:58pm:

As far as I can tell, you wouldn't notice a difference between IDE and SATA drives as far as performance goes... Sure, SATA can support the faster RPM speeds of newer hard drives (10,000/15,000RPM), but that shouldn't effect game performance whatsoever.

http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?s=&showtopic=241380&view=findpost&p=1530076

Seems the master has proved me wrong. =P

I knew the speeds of the WD Raptor would certainly help with retrieving said data, but I didn't think it would actually help with in-game performance.

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Reply #5 - Jan 21^st, 2009 at 8:23pm

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Thank you for the replys, and again great info. I know I am running old school CPU and such, but I guess you could say I am like Tim Allen in that old TV show Tim The Toolman Taylor and always looking to get that extra Power or performance out of someting without blowing it up Cool

. All in all I do have fs9 running great but again that extra edge of peformance is always welcome.

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Reply #6 - Jan 21^st, 2009 at 8:39pm

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The problem is Tim always blows it up

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Reply #7 - Jan 21^st, 2009 at 8:41pm

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Isak922 wrote on Jan 21^st, 2009 at 7:47pm:

NickN wrote on Jan 21^st, 2009 at 5:55pm:

Isak922 wrote on Jan 21^st, 2009 at 1:58pm:

As far as I can tell, you wouldn't notice a difference between IDE and SATA drives as far as performance goes... Sure, SATA can support the faster RPM speeds of newer hard drives (10,000/15,000RPM), but that shouldn't effect game performance whatsoever.

http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?s=&showtopic=241380&view=findpost&p=1530076

Seems the master has proved me wrong. =P

I knew the speeds of the WD Raptor would certainly help with retrieving said data, but I didn't think it would actually help with in-game performance.

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Do not take that to mean you get more frame rates by changing storage

Performance in a computer is the combination of all parts working in concert to produce the performance result. When you select a SET of components which are geared toward the final result you get the result.

Plugging a 10k drive into a slow system will help with part of the problem but it will not act as a cure all for crap support components. That is where the myths about storage performance come from.. some dip-chit plugged a real hard drive into a chit system and expected miracles.. the problem is the dip-chit did not have the CPU and system to support the drive and then ran all over the internet claiming 10k drives are worthless

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Reply #8 - Jan 21^st, 2009 at 10:09pm

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Ok quick question while on the topic. A SATA Dvd Drive will perform faster or slower than a IDE dvd drive? A simple faster or slower or no difference answer will suffice

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Thanks. I burn quite a lot of information when i am backing up my pc's (am about to format and reinstall so a lot of burning ahead).

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Reply #9 - Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 2:24am

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T1MT1M wrote on Jan 21^st, 2009 at 10:09pm:

Ok quick question while on the topic. A SATA Dvd Drive will perform faster or slower than a IDE dvd drive? A simple faster or slower or no difference answer will suffice

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Thanks. I burn quite a lot of information when i am backing up my pc's (am about to format and reinstall so a lot of burning ahead).

SATA can transfer data (correct?) faster than IDE, so just make sure it has a fast spin rate Wink

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Reply #10 - Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 4:13pm

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As far as I understand it doesn't make that much of a difference. The choke point as far as data transfer is concerned is the burning itself and the speed of the drive. So you can have a 22x IDE or SATA drive and they will burn at the same speed. The only difference is that a SATA connection is more stable than an IDE for burning.

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Reply #11 - Jan 23^rd, 2009 at 1:32am

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Alejandro Rhodes wrote on Jan 21^st, 2009 at 2:02pm:

I heard coments around and my own humble experience SATA is faster HDD and cd/dvd rom ..

but the thin red cable..ahh it unplug and sometimes causes troubles,they should invent somekind of hook to hold the cable harder to the motherboard and devices

They beat ya' to it Alrot. Great idea though. Wink

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Reply #12 - Jan 23^rd, 2009 at 3:14am

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Alejandro Rhodes wrote on Jan 21^st, 2009 at 2:02pm:

I heard coments around and my own humble experience SATA is faster HDD and cd/dvd rom ..

but the thin red cable..ahh it unplug and sometimes causes troubles,they should invent somekind of hook to hold the cable harder to the motherboard and devices

"Locking" SATA cables have been on the market for quite some time now. They are very secure and wont unplug until you want them to.

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