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Hard Drives

They're different communication protocols used to connect the drives to your computer. SATA is newer, and some new motherboards only support SATA (or only have one IDE port). Consult your computer or motherboard's documentation to see which kind you need.

In practice, they work about the same. SATA is "faster", but IDE is fast enough for any consumer hard drive (at least if you put one drive per channel).
 
the main difference is the cable type. IDE has a large cable when compared to SATA which uses a thin cable. when you compare the speed sata is slightly faster than ide (pata drives).

Speed: 150mbps (SATA), 300mbps (SATA 2) and 100/133mbps (IDE drives)
 
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