IDE or SATA?

Geoff

Geoff

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Since i fried my last 200gb sata hard drvie (a very bad overclock in the cpu section), i need to buy a new one. Although this time i was debating between a sata and ide, i know sata is faster and stuff, but if i got an IDE then i can overclock alot more without the drives freezing up.. so what do you think?
 
my motherboard has 2x sata 150's, and 2x ide, i bought this mobo around a month ago and i cant spend money on a new hard drive and a new motherboard. and i really want to use my comp this weekend, so what do you think i should get?
 
Well I know with my hd I have to use only SATA drives... If you have used an ide prior on this hd.. then we can assume that ide is ok with yours... But I have SATA drives, they havent failed yet, They dont seem to be any greater, (other than speeds which I dont notice). The only difference is the price of the SATA (little more expensive..) But IF they were the same price, I would go with the SATA.. if the difference is not to much different.. go with the SATA.. Is price that important?
 
He went ahead and got the IDE, and can overclock more now, but his HDD performance dropped because of the downgrade from SATA to IDE. I don't overclock alot so I am sticking with my SATAII HDD.
 
since games dont require much HDD usage, it worked out much better for me, but ya, i did go with a 120GB IDE w/ 8MB cache.
 
WTH? whats with u two and like knowing alot about each other there?

anyway, i woulda went with sata since u'd then have more optical drive options since they are mainly ide
 
X24 said:
WTH? whats with u two and like knowing alot about each other there?

anyway, i woulda went with sata since u'd then have more optical drive options since they are mainly ide
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i could have bought a PCI SATA controller, but dont know how much that would have costs, since i cant use sata on my mobo since i can only go to 226mhz fsb.
 
with my motherboard and alot of others, when you have a sata hard drive and try to overclock the cpu, it gives you an error message and wont load windows when you hit a certain point (which is pretty low), ide doesnt do this, so it allows you to overclock much more.
 
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