The difference between SATA and PATA doesn't matter all that much on a laptop. The best thing you can do for performance is go with a 7200 RPM laptop drive if you are into recording. Laptop drives - especially the 4800 RPM ones - are quite slow.
<br><br>My take on PATA is that it's going to be around for a good long while yet, and not only is it generally cheaper than SATA, the controllers have better software support. This opinion, is, however, based on year old data, and a sample size of two - my opteron machine's PATA controller is easily 40% faster than it's SATA controller as it's SATA doesn't support queued commands - and my laptop is WAY faster since I slammed the 7200 RPM drive in.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ken Restivo</b> <<a href="mailto:ken@restivo.org">ken@restivo.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>I'm a hardware idiot. I have the worst luck buying hardware: I always buy the wrong thing and end up getting screwed. Plus I don't have a lot of money, so when I get screwed, it's devastating.
<br><br>So that's why I avoid buying hardware. But still, I need a laptop, and so here I am shopping and probably about to make some stupid and unrecoverable mistake that will cost me everything.<br><br>I'm torn between these two ones:
<br><br><a href="http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?313598_ASUS_90NG6G161500000L18">http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?313598_ASUS_90NG6G161500000L18</a><br><br>Which says it supports Yonah but not Merom! This is bizarre, because I'm told that it is the same socket and same package. But still, the specs say what they say, and I'm reluctant to buy it because... what if the specs were right and I get screwed by a machine I can't upgrade? But this machine has SATA, and Nvidia chipset.
<br><br>Then there's this one:<br><br><a href="http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?321259_ASUS_90N-SI8G181101000L1Z">http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?321259_ASUS_90N-SI8G181101000L1Z</a><br><br>Which explicitly says it will support Merom (including the T7600, which is what I want), but... it only has PATA support. It has the Intel graphics chipset but I'm used to that (with my Mac Mini) and it seems to work more than well enough for music stuff.
<br><br>So how important is SATA over PATA for audio work?<br><br>And, does the graphics chipset matter at all (so far, I'd guess not).<br><br>Finally, what's with the explicit lack of mention of Merom? Will a Merom T7600 simply not work in that unit, or is it a safe bet that it will?
<br><br>TIA for any help or advice on this.<br><br>- -ken<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)<br><br>iD8DBQFGEyHHe8HF+6xeOIcRAn9zAJ9k4Dahd8NQIB3CbQTNxiK9Uua18ACg72VZ<br>8vZkw3PDNEl07aHdEHd0KTc=
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