Fastest IDE Hard Drive

[KrispyKreme50]

I'm planning to buy an IDE hard drive soon and I was wondering if this hard drive is basically the IDE version of the WD3200AAKS.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822136217

If not, could someone please point me to the fastest hard drive available for IDE today?

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Storage Review. Check out their performance database. It will allow you to sort performance based on application.

 

[KrispyKreme50]

Thanks for the help Fullmetal but that site doesn't have any performance benchmarks for IDE drives if I'm looking at it correctly (only SATA, SCSI). I'm trying to do a little DD but there doesn't seem to be any reviews for this model.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Actually, IDE drives are included - they are labeled "ATA". Unfortunately, most of those drives are older models. SR is pretty small, and in the past has been cash-strapped, so the # of drives in their performance db is small relative to the drives on the market. Also, most folks are going SATA these days (my main drive is IDE, Luddite that I am) so most reviews focus on that.

Is there a certain application you are using that necessitates the hard drive to be the "fastest"? I would think that all quality drives of similar specs - size, cache, rpm, etc - would offer similar performance.

 

[KrispyKreme50]

No application in particular but I'm thinking I might as well get the best.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

I don't think you could go wrong with the drive you picked out. Is 320gb enough?

 

[KrispyKreme50]

Thanks for the help Gazelle. I probably won't even come close to using 100 GB.