new hdrive

[xaeniac]

Presently I have a 120 gb ATA drive. I want to buy a secondary drive, but I want it to be useful in the future, so I would like to buy a SATA drive. The only thing is that my mobo does not support SATA, so I would have to buy a PCI controller card. Would I be sacrificing speed if I made the SATA drive my primary drive? What are the negatives in doing this? I don't want to buy a new mobo as I think it would be wasteful to buy Skt A and if I upgraded it would require me to buy many things brand new video card, mobo, processor, ram, and the list goes on and on, so what advice would you give me?

 

[kenrippy]

get one of these instead of a pci sata card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822998001

 

[xaeniac]

thanx I think this has solved my issue.

 

[sillious]

Not being an expert on this matter if I may ask a polite question:

What's the point of buying a SATA drive only to get the ATA bandwith (through ATA cable)?

Again, not to argue, I am interested to know if taking the adviced option, doesn't the data transfer bandwidth gets lower?

Thanks.

 

[mikester]

The point is you can buy SATA drives now and use them in an old system and still use them in a newer system later, instead of spending money on IDE drives which are on the way out

 

[kenrippy]

yes, and the speed difference is hardly noticeable when comparing two new models of each 7200rpm formats.

 

[Cinna696]

while sata may offer more bandwith, the average hds are still not putting out more than the old IDE cable could cover.