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Snipergod87

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Hey i am getting a new computer and i was wondering if i should get SATA. I Currently have an IDE harddrive and i was wondering if when i am in windows (on SATA) if i can use my IDE harddrive. I have asked a someone and they said No. But i am not sure and i want to double check before i order my comp.

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The only 'problem' with SATA is that if the hardware doesnt natively support the controller than you'll have to load drivers at boot-time and that's sometimes a hassle. The second negative thing is that for many people there isnt enough of a performance increase to justify the price jump (i.e. your programs arent gonna load 5 seconds faster or nothin); other than that you might as well get SATA :)
 
If you're on W98 you'll most likely have to load drivers (like i said, unless your hardware has native support for it you'll need drivers :))
 
In my country the difference of price between 120 GB IDE and ATA is only like 5 dollars. Do you think 5 dollars worth the performance increase (if there really is an increase performance) I'm thinking about buying it, saving the IDE slot for other Devices. If I have 200 GB hardisk, should I use NTFS format or just stick to the fat 32?


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It's not so much the performance increase (if it was just that i'd jump right away and still, i probably would) but rather for me at least it's just the hassle of loading boottime SATA drivers if there isnt native chipset support for it. As for the filesystem; naturally you should go for the NTFS
 
If you load windows onto the sata drive and have an ide harddrive in it will recognize it but you will not be able to run any arrays on them (except the sata). You can use the IDE as storage, sure. It all depends if you have SATA on your board or if you dont you can buy a sata adaptor to plug into a PCI slot. Hope that answers your question.
 
laxma said:
If I have 200 GB hardisk, should I use NTFS format or just stick to the fat 32?
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For sure NTFS. One of my friends was running xp on his machine and it was running really slow and i was like "dude, let me see your harddrive" so i put it on my machine and immediately windows xp said "why aren't you in NTFS format?, would you like for me to give you a complementary change?" :P

it ran so much better after that!!!

but yeah man, if you get a 200gb disk and are running windows you will have to get 2 partitions to be able to use all the HDD. windows will only regonizes 127gb at a time.

I will personally never go with anything other than SATA now that I have one installed. They are so much easier to install/uninstall. that to me is worth the money if it's just a few bucks more. But yeah they do perform a little bit better.
 
Grimulus said:
but yeah man, if you get a 200gb disk and are running windows you will have to get 2 partitions to be able to use all the HDD. windows will only regonizes 127gb at a time.
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While this is true that windows will only recognize 127GB at a time on install. After Windows is installed you can use partition magic 8.0 to resize the drive to its full potential. So this way you don’t have to create multiple partitions if you don’t want to.
 
If you load windows onto the sata drive and have an ide harddrive in it will recognize it but you will not be able to run any arrays on them (except the sata).
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I thnk you could probably run a software RAID but that's more of a proof-of-concept than anything practically feasible :)

After Windows is installed you can use partition magic 8.0 to resize the drive to its full potential. So this way you don’t have to create multiple partitions if you don’t want to.
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Never knew never bothed... always sorted my crap into 115GB sections anyways LOL
 
as long ast u have win 2k sp3 or higher or win xp sp1 or higher already installed before u install ur new drive it will detect the whole size, i've tried up to 250gb. havent try 300 gb yet. SATA you will notice big difference when you use par par 2 to recover files. also sata has less heat then ata so more air flows through the board. i'm waiting for the 300gb sata with 16mb cache coming tomorrow.
 
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