I am currently using a IDE 120GB hard drive on my computer. My motherboard supports IDE and SATA. My current hard drive is starting to fail and I find myself running checkdisk and fixdisk practically every week. I'm assuming its time to start looking for a new hard drive. My question is, should I stay and buy another IDE or shoudl I go for a SATA? What are the pros and cons of each? Whats your experience with them? What do you prefer? Will I be able to transfer everything from the IDE drive to the SATA drive while both are connected to the motherboard?
2006-10-30 07:33:32 · 4 answers · asked by vail2073 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Get a SATA drive definately. SATA is the new "IDE". All future motherboards will use SATA eventually and the old PATA drives are being phased out. The PATA max (theoretical) speed is 133MB/s while the SATA max is now at 300MB/s.
You will be able to copy your old PATA drive data to the new SATA drive.
They both should cost about the same. If not, you're getting ripped off. If you're in canada, you could try www.ncix.com for prices.
Note: SATA drives use a different power connector than the older PATA drives. Check to see if your power supply has these connectors or if you can get some converters. My power converters came with my motherboard.
Also make sure you download the latest drivers for your SATA controller on your motherboard.
2006-10-30 07:49:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
From the mainboard diagrams i've just seen, your system has 2 SATA ports. Personally i'd stick with IDE since the drives are usually a bit cheaper than SATA, and it's what you've already been using thus far so you wont need a new cable or anything. I just bought an PATA LG 22x DVDRW, which has some excellent reviews and is very reasonably priced (and if my PSU wasn't playing up right now i'd tell you how well it works, but it's currently being a boob so I can't :/ )
2016-05-22 12:10:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd go sata
SATA is a good bit faster, plus if you get two of the same type and size you can run RAID to boot, which is even faster still. You should be able to transfer fairly easily, since sata is still just a hard drive.
2006-10-30 07:36:25 · answer #3 · answered by Justin V 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go for the SATA, Its faster, runs cooler, and i think you should give it a try. Use both of them, IDE/SATA.
2006-10-30 07:37:53 · answer #4 · answered by Daniel B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋