SATA or PATA

[cirereyes]

I’m probably one of those who still prefer to use PATA hard disks rather than SATA disks. Although a SATA disk is faster and has a larger capacity than the old IDE drives, I feel that files saved on PATA disks would last longer because I always had disk error problems with SATA hard drives.

[marynorth21]

For faster file transfers, I prefer SATA.

[Taba-Kodo]

I would choose Sata, if you manage well your services you can avoid disk error problems.
Most of our servers hace Sata HDD and we have never got any problem.

[frank_fran]

Newer motherboards have more SATA than PATA ports so
unless you plan on having a lot of SATA HDDs, it will have
more future support. On the other hand if adding it to an
existing system it may be more important what that system
supports. As others mentioned optical drives don't benefit
from SATA so if you have a limited # of SATA ports it would
be better to put SATA hard drives on those than buy any new
PATA HDDs.

[ashely]

the downsides to Serial ATA- Since serial technology can only "speak" to one device per channel, twice as many connectors are required in motherboard design over PATA. Still, with a much smaller footprint, it should be no problem to provide sufficient SATA connectors for most if not all PC applications.

[notten]

You would probably want SATA because all the new drives are running on it. You can expect drives to fail, and PATA drives are just older so they are more likely to fail. Use RAID to protect your systems from live failures, and backups to protect them from total failure or other damage.

[SiberForum]

I suppose each situation is unique by the importance. You need to understand what is more important for you right now. Or that is mony saved or better performance

[Angella]

I suppose each situation is unique by the importance. You need to understand what is more important for you right now. Or that is mony saved or better performance

I am going to agree here folks. It comes down to your specific requirements

[krupux]

SATA for me. Over here, PATA drives are actually more expensive compared to SATA, due to low supplies.

And besides, SATA cables are much more manageable compared to PATA.

[Gryal]

Comparing on speed SATA