IDE Hard Drives...

Hugh9191 said:
Why are you still on IDE?? SATA would speed your system up a fair amount.
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Good question... my current rig doesn't even support SATA... the new one that's on it's way will though... I've got a 70GB SATA drive sitting next to me right now... it's just it's a bit small. :P Since I'm not storing a ton on the hard drive I may use it though.
 
lol yup apparently u are i have like 10 computers and all of them use sata except my "super computer" which is comprise of 4 p4 2.0 ghz w/ 40gb ide hard drive i set them up as a testing cloud computing ....its epc...but slow cuz one of my quad core are better than all 4 of the :(
 
I thought I would add I purchased a SATA drive today and what an incredible difference! On my IDE drive I had an incredibly loooong startup time, literally 6-8 minutes. The Sata drive is at most a minute.
 
I've only got 2 SATA power cables with my PSU. I have one SATA drive connected [250GB with XP on it]. Maybe I'll upgrade a little and get myself a 500GB for spare storage.
 
Irishwhistle said:
Seems like almost everyone uses SATA now... am I the only one using an IDE drive?
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Not quite! The last build here saw two ide drives along with two sata models added in a short time after first putting it together for increasing storage capacity along with multibooting different versions of Windows as well as other OSs.

The current build started off seeing only one ide for boot and later saw that removed until lately deciding to dedicate that as a Linux drive. As far as everything being speeded up simply swapping over to sata you won't see that unless running a WD Raptor 10.000rpm Raptor drive since the hardware limitation is still seen with the ATA100/133 standard on sata as well as ide drives there.

The sata bus is faster while the hardware limitations still hold back the potential performance boost that could be seen.
 
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