SATA HD's good comapred to IDE?

[lolper]

im thinking about getting a 160-200 gig hd should i get sata or ide and why???

 

[PurdueRy]

SATA because IDE is dying a slow death(aka few mobos have more than 1 IDE port on them now and some have none)

 

[lolper]

any speeddifference?

 

[lolper]

also is it possible to have one sata HD and an ide HD?

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: lolper
also is it possible to have one sata HD and an ide HD?

Yes, and there really is no speed difference between the two formats at this point in reality. However, sata is a much nicer connection(to deal with in a case)

 

[Chaotic42]

Definitely so with SATA. I bought some PATA drives on sale, and now my new motherboard only supports two PATA devices. PATA had it's time in the sun. It's time to shoot it and make glue.

 

[grumpyboy]

theres no speed difference on a single drive system no, you would be hard pushed to max out a ata 133 bus or even ata 100.
SATA can be a pain to use as a boot disk with xp windows setup, where as IDE has no problems.
IF you decide to setup up mirror/raid later SATA is much better since it can be hot swapped, plus then the extra bandwidth of SATA might come into play.
If you have the PATA slot I dont see any reason not to use it, you can aways get some SATA drives later.

 

[ForumMaster]

you can use both IDE and SATA drives and there is a speed difference. atleast in theory. the latest SATAII can move data at a theortical speed of 3Gbps while the old IDE 133 could move data at 133MBps. but in reality, the harddrive can't move data fast enough. it's only for burst speeds.

SATA does have plenty of improvements though. The cables are smaller (easier for management inside the case) and they offer improvements like hot swap and NCQ. plus they got rid of the jumper since each drive is on it's own channel.

just get SATA. it's cheaper anyway.

 

[jkresh]

If you plan on using the drive for a while (ie at leas one motherboard upgrade) then go with sata as its possible that the next board you buy wont have ide. Also in general ide drives are now as expensive/more expensive then sata because of supply issues, so definitely dont spend more for a dying tech.