Sata or IDE?

dannyd123 · 17 Dec 2006 at 20:41

Building a new system but the question on my mind is what hard drive to go for SATA or IDE? I'm wondering what are the differences between the two :confused:

squiffy · 17 Dec 2006 at 20:44

Might as well go for SATA, constant read performance is the same, but SATA edges out on burst rates.

Leave PATA channels for optical drives though, and any spare PATA IDE drivers you still use say 200GB.

dannyd123 · 17 Dec 2006 at 20:46

thanks for your help

merry christmas

Joe42 · 17 Dec 2006 at 21:47

IDE is actually being phased out on motherboards and many newer motherboards have only 1 channel, with future boards likely to have none.

Optical drives are finally going over to sata now (not for performance really, just convenience), so you can expect IDE to disappear completely in a few years time.

Bearing this in mind, and the fact that sata drives cost about the same as IDE drives, and its more convenient, i can't see any reason to get an IDE drive.