sata drives

THC_SsSsSnake · 8 Apr 2006 at 17:22

i have an ide ibm hard drive,am thinking of getting a Sata when I buy my new board,but ive heard that when you are installing windows xp it asks for a floppy disk with some drivers or other on.
is this so and do you get the disk with the drive,seems a pain as id more or less ditched the floppy drive? is it worth the hassle or just as well stick to ide?
thankyou

THC_SsSsSnake · 8 Apr 2006 at 17:43

thanks Smids ,forgive my begginners questions but is the asus premium board have a n nforce controller and if so are you saying I wouldnt need a floppy and I wouldnt be raiding so I wouldnt get asked for a disk then?
If I decide to stay IDE can you reccomend the best drive that is not too big say 40-80 gig,does the cache size make a difference,I only have a 30 gig IBM at the moment and it only gets about half full

thanks

THC_SsSsSnake · 8 Apr 2006 at 18:37

thankyou very much

THC_SsSsSnake · 9 Apr 2006 at 11:12

smids said:
I think it's definitely worth it and I no longer use IDE HDU's. A good thing if you have an nForce4 controller is that the SATA ports default to a pseudo IDE mode so the drivers are not required for installation.

So once its installed do you then change it to sata in the bios(pseudo ide mode ie)?
thanks

THC_SsSsSnake · 10 Apr 2006 at 07:03

thanks

By the way i was amazed when you said that going from 2mg cache drive to 8 med you noticed a massive difference in speed for gaming.anyone else found this also?
thanks