[svlug] UATA v. SATA

[Walt Reed]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:47:26PM -0800, Akbar S. Ahmed said:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a performance difference between UATA and 
> SATA? I google'd but found a bunch of really old info.

Don't know about this - the theory is that SATA is a little faster. Real
life you probably won't see much difference as the physical drive is the
same.
 
> Also, do both UATA and SATA drives work with Debian stable?

Probably not with the stock kernel. It's not the drive that is the issue
- it's the drivers for the controllers.

I'm running SATA drives on my desktop (Intel ICH5R chipset) using the
libata patch with 2.4.24 on debian sid and it's been rock solid.