Can a slow hard drive bottleneck overall performance in games?

Polaris573 · Jan 25, 2010

Mussels said:
IDE has no effect. Very, very few drives even come close to its 133MB/s maximum.

In a way it does because PATA doesn't support newer technologies like NCQ and you don't share bandwidth between multiple drives. With SATA you never approach the theoretical bandwidth of either buses, but you do get a whole lot closer. There is no reason anyone should ever buy a PATA drive unless their motherboard does not have SATA ports.

DRDNA said:
I average over 300MB/Sec ..always

With RAID

Mussels · Jan 25, 2010

Polaris573 said:
In a way it does because PATA doesn't support newer technologies like NCQ and you don't share bandwidth between multiple drives. With SATA you never approach the theoretical bandwidth of either buses, but you do get a whole lot closer. There is no reason anyone should ever buy a PATA drive unless their motherboard does not have SATA ports.

With RAID

oh yes, SATA is preferred. but the interface alone isnt gunna cause any massive difference.

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Can a slow hard drive bottleneck overall performance in games?

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