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SATA...is it really as good as it claims?

Desra2004
23-09-2004, 17:08
I just benchmarked (using PCmark 2002) a Intel P4 3.2 prescott with a Hitachi 80GB PATA drive and got a HDD score of 1042. Then I benchmarked a Athlon 64 3200+ with a Seagate 120GB SATA drive and got a HDD score of 1081.

These scores are 39 points different, hardly noticeable. Is my PATA drive really good or is my SATA drive really bad? :confused: :confused:

--Full benchmarks--

Intel P4 540 (3.2GHZ) Prescott, 1GB DDR2 533, 80GB Hitachi PATA HDD
CPU: 6623
MEM: 9254
HDD: 1042

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2.0GHZ), 1GB DDR 400, 120GB Seagate SATA HDD
CPU: 6429
MEM: 7609
HDD: 1081