I have a old 10Gb PATA harddisk. I wish to assemble a new computer and want to go for SATA harddisk. So can both be installed on the same motherboard without any problems, I mean that do currenr mother boards support both IDE and SATA. Which one will give me faster performance?
2007-01-10 18:16:02 · 3 answers · asked by Sa Kar Car Mar Kar 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
to the same keyboard?
/me slaps Soumik Karmakar about with a wet fish
lol way to ask a million questions,
answer: Take the old hdd to a pc shop. get them to burn the contents to a dvd. and just use the sata. sata much faster.
2007-01-10 18:25:34 · answer #1 · answered by Andrew S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PATA would be slower then SATA. I would use the SATA drive for your OS and games, but use the PATA for documents and data. Usually PATA drives dont go bad that fast, and since SATA is much faster, they go bad quicker than a PATA drive. PATA drives transfer at 60-100 megabytes per second while the latest SATA does 300 megabytes per second. Both harddrives should work fine on the same motherboard. make sure you set up the sata drive as the primary harddrive in the bios, making it the C:\ drive.
2007-01-11 02:24:36 · answer #2 · answered by kling3l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can attach. Sata is faster.
2007-01-11 02:24:26 · answer #3 · answered by ssmindia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋