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What type of hard drive should I buy?

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slinky22

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I've noticed a ton of posts of people having problems getting SATA drives installed. As a first time system builder, I want this to be an easy as possible. Are there really any *significant* advantages over SATA drives that would make the potential for problems worthwhile? If not, what would be the best alternative? I'm thinking of getting the EPoX 8KDA3J with an Athlon 64 3000. Would a normal IDE drive in there be a waste?
 
SATAS are so hard. There's one extra step. Pressing F6 when you install windows. Then putting in your driver disk and loading the driver. So freakin' impossible. Took me a week to figure out.
 
The thing holding me back from SATA is the many reports indicating a lack of REAL performance increase. So, why bother?

Of course, I've seen those who swear by them. But until there's a concescuss (sp?), I'll pass until I run out of other things to upgrade.

My .02
 
I know about that step, but there's tons of posts from people who say that step didn't work for them and they had to make some vague bios change.
 
Originally posted by: S0Y73NTGR33N
SATAS are so hard. There's one extra step. Pressing F6 when you install windows. Then putting in your driver disk and loading the driver. So freakin' impossible. Took me a week to figure out.
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It doesn't have to be that hard. I slipstreamed my SATA drivers right into the XP installation and just popped the CD in. Went upstairs, ate lunch, came back and I had a fresh installation of XP. However if you are a first-time builder I imagine you don't have slipstreaming files handy. I prefer SATA because of the smaller cables and it seems more future-proof. Not that PATA is going anywhere remotely soon.
 
Originally posted by: Fern
The thing holding me back from SATA is the many reports indicating a lack of REAL performance increase. So, why bother?

Of course, I've seen those who swear by them. But until there's a concescuss (sp?), I'll pass until I run out of other things to upgrade.

My .02
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The reason I put a SATA in is so my IDE cables aren't all tangled together. On my mobo the sata inputs are right down by the HDD slots and the IDE is up by the optical drive slots. Makes it easier if you ever want to take something out. That's about it though, no real performance changes.
 
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