Need advice please

[Baker]

I currently have 2x IDE drives in my machine atm. My new mobo supports SATA disks now and i'm wondering if i should replace an IDE drive with a SATA drive.
First off, what are the pluspoints? I know SATA is 150mbps+ and IDE is 100 or 133 but i've also heard SATA drives don't always use their full transfer capacity rate. I won't be planning on running a raid0 array because it seems out of reach for me at the moment. What would you advise?

 

[semi-pro waster]

SATA is theoretically faster but those are in ideal conditions like almost any quoted figures. The drives are still based on the same technology whether IDE or SATA but I'd still suggest SATA as the cabling is neater, they are a little bit faster and eventually IDE will die out or at least only be used for lower bandwidth components such as optical drives.

 

[noxidjkram@hotm]

I currently have 2x IDE drives in my machine atm. My new mobo supports SATA disks now and i'm wondering if i should replace an IDE drive with a SATA drive.
First off, what are the pluspoints? I know SATA is 150mbps+ and IDE is 100 or 133 but i've also heard SATA drives don't always use their full transfer capacity rate. I won't be planning on running a raid0 array because it seems out of reach for me at the moment. What would you advise?

Don't replace them unless you see some benefit from doing so. you are just wasting your money otherwise.

ATA->SATA is not worth considering unless you have a real need to use the extra bandwidth available IMHO.

M