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Are SATA drives reliable now ?

swordheartswordheart
edited March 2007 in Chit chat
I am thinking of getting a SATA hard drive the one in the link actually the 320GB one

http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1728

It will be the only hard drive in my system and so it will have the OS on it and a lot of large vdeo files, i remember someone saying a long time ago that they were fast but not very reliable, have Sata drives now improved their reliability ?
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  • beanzbeanz
    edited March 2007
    Never heard about a reliability problem, been running them for umm.. 3 years or so with no problems at all (multi drive and single drive systems).
  • icabodicabod
    edited March 2007
    I've installed a SATA drive in my system, with 4 IDE devices, and it's playing quite nicely. I seem to recall a mate having problems booting from a SATA drive when he got one a few years back, but I've had no probs.

    Only annoyance I have with the drive is that it shows up in Windows as a removable device (you know, when you click the system tray icon to unplug your USB devices). Is that normal?
  • SkarpoSkarpo
    edited March 2007
    icabod wrote: »
    ...
    Only annoyance I have with the drive is that it shows up in Windows as a removable device (you know, when you click the system tray icon to unplug your USB devices). Is that normal?

    Erm ... I've not bumped into that before. If it's working ok then don't worry(?)

    Skarpo
    :-|
  • icabodicabod
    edited March 2007
    Hmm. Well, not "removable" device as such... but it does show up in the "Unplug/Eject Hardware" box.
    May have to look into that, then.
  • SkarpoSkarpo
    edited March 2007
    Oh, wait ... does it have something to do with it being hotswappable as a secondary HD? (depends on your OS I believe)
  • guesserguesser
    edited March 2007
    my mate has this problem, but I do not. I wonder, do you have an onboard SATA controller, or a controller card?
    My friend has his drives on a raid card, whereas my mobo has an onboard SATA controller
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • icabodicabod
    edited March 2007
    Skarpo wrote: »
    Oh, wait ... does it have something to do with it being hotswappable as a secondary HD? (depends on your OS I believe)
    Ah, I guess that could be it. It's just a little disconcerting to know that I could accidentally "remove" the drive by clicking a few pixels out. Hehe.

    Either way, the drive is working nicely, using my onboard controller.
  • misguided_foolmisguided_fool
    edited March 2007
    I had problems running XP on a single SATA drive.

    You may need to install 3rd party drivers via floppy when you reinstall windows. A lot of people have problems like this when they install a RAID configuration - but I've not done that.

    Seems my version of XP didnt like my SATA on SATA0 on my motherboard.

    No such problems with Vista for me in that respect - but a whole lot of other problems (mainly old software).

    On the whole though, you shouldnt really have SATA problems.
  • swordheartswordheart
    edited March 2007
    Thanks 4 the help will get one next week i'm thinking of getting a media player for use with the old ata drive don't suppose any one has bought one if so what do u think of em ?
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