phillh Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Just in case anyone was trying to decide, I did about 6 installs so far of the 10.4.5 patched DVD the last few days, all different hardware, 3 IDE boot drives, 3 SATA boot drives, one thing I found worth sharing, the three IDE installs took 2 hours, the three SATA installs (Intel ICH5) all took under 20 minutes regardless of processor. If you really want your PC Mac to rock use SATA The SATA installs fly, the best one I have with a Gigabyte motherboard (see last entry in motherboards on HCL page) boots in less than 15 seconds. Cheers PhillH Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12514-sata-or-ide-sata-wins-hands-down/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykell9999 Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Just in case anyone was trying to decide, I did about 6 installs so far of the 10.4.5 patched DVD the last few days, all different hardware, 3 IDE boot drives, 3 SATA boot drives, one thing I found worth sharing, the three IDE installs took 2 hours, the three SATA installs (Intel ICH5) all took under 20 minutes regardless of processor. If you really want your PC Mac to rock use SATS The SATA installs fly, the best one I have with a Gigabyte motherboard (see last entry in motherboards on HCL page) boots in less than 15 seconds. Cheers PhillH What motherboard chipset are you using? On my Asus P5GL-MX board ( intel 915 chipset ) I dont see much differenct installing 10.4.5 patched dvd on an 80 Gb ide or sata drive, btw the 80gb ide hd was a Maxtor, and the 80Gb sata was a seagate. I didnt do a full install, only installed hp printer drivers, english, chinese - simplified and traditional, then x11 and all the pathces. It took my ide and sata hd around 30 - 40 minutes. And this was on a celeron 2.66 processor! Didnt really time it, but i'd say they were within 5 minutes of each other. Mike Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12514-sata-or-ide-sata-wins-hands-down/#findComment-79260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Thanks for the info, phillh! Welcome to the forums. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12514-sata-or-ide-sata-wins-hands-down/#findComment-79262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I use a PATA (IDE) and it boots up in 13 seconds... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12514-sata-or-ide-sata-wins-hands-down/#findComment-79448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I use a PATA (IDE) and it boots up in 13 seconds...Sure, me too. The thing, phillh, is about the installation, since the installation may load a AppleGenericPCATA kext to install the OS it cause to work the hard drive in PIO Mode, but since kexts for SATA disks/interfaces are already faster than UltraDMA IDE mode they work faster. But even faster than that is to install from VMware since you can use an image of the Installation DVD but with HD speed, even on my box my discs are in RAID so install Mac OS with VMware take less than 20 minutes. But once you boot if you have thr correct kext for your chipset, for PATA-IDE UltraDMA mode or SATA the OS fly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12514-sata-or-ide-sata-wins-hands-down/#findComment-79458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillh Posted March 21, 2006 Author Share Posted March 21, 2006 I am in heaven, posting from my new MAC, I could get used to this Anyway, my board is a Gigabyte GA-81915G-MF - which uses Intel 915G Express / Intel ICH6. I got everthing to work except the sound, I fixed that by sticking in a Soundblaster PCI of which I have about 20 laying around here. I have installed on a variety of machines and each time IDE took nearly 2 hours, SATA under 20 minutes on this baby, but Macgirl is right, once they boot there is not a lot of difference. This is, when you install with a STAS drive on Intel chipset the slowest thing becomes your DVD drive. Anyway, thanks to all the posters and whoever is responsible for this site for lots of great information, just add my voice to the "I would buy this if I could" crowd. Cheers Phill Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12514-sata-or-ide-sata-wins-hands-down/#findComment-79824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSpam Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 ...it takes me about 30mins to install on an old IDE drive via VMWare. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12514-sata-or-ide-sata-wins-hands-down/#findComment-79833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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