SATA or IDE?

enderwiggin9

enderwiggin9

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is sata better or is ide for dvd burners and such? the motherboard i want only has one ide interface and i am looking to have more than one drive. one problem with the sata is that it is difficult for me to find a psu that gives you enough sata connectors. i mean if you have 3 HDDs and 2 drives that are sata, you are going to need a psu with more than a few sata connectors. what am i to do?
 
enderwiggin9 said:
is sata better or is ide for dvd burners and such? the motherboard i want only has one ide interface and i am looking to have more than one drive. one problem with the sata is that it is difficult for me to find a psu that gives you enough sata connectors. i mean if you have 3 HDDs and 2 drives that are sata, you are going to need a psu with more than a few sata connectors. what am i to do?
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There is really no performance gain over sata for ide for cd/dvd drives. I would go with ide if you could but if you want more than one drive on ide and you don't have the space than go with sata.
 
I bought sata drives, just so i could use my single ide channel for an old hard drive i had lying around.

There ARE some small differences to having sata drives, tho, since both drives are on completely independant channels back to the motherboard. You can be using both drives for completely different things, without any slowdown or conflicts between the two drives.

You can be burning cd's on both drives at full speed, or even recording a disc with one, while using the other to rip a dvd, or use it for doing something different altogether.
 
so are you saying, heyman421, that, if i use sata, then i can be using the two burners for two different tasks at the fastest rate possible. or are you talking about one on ide and one on sata?
 
enderwiggin9 said:
so are you saying, heyman421, that, if i use sata, then i can be using the two burners for two different tasks at the fastest rate possible. or are you talking about one on ide and one on sata?
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He is saying that if you are using sata for both drives you can be doing two things at once at the fastest rate possible.
 
well, either one.

Both devices on an IDE channel are sharing bandwidth, where each SATA drive has it's own discrete 1.5/3.0Gb/s connection back to the motherboard.

I wouldn't BUY a SATA drive just because of that, but if you DO end up getting SATA drives, that's a small benefit

Like i said, i only got SATA burners so i could use a PATA hard drive i had lying around. It's just one bonus i noticed afterwards.
 
enderwiggin9 said:
so are you saying, heyman421, that, if i use sata, then i can be using the two burners for two different tasks at the fastest rate possible. or are you talking about one on ide and one on sata?
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You can do that on SATA, or on IDE if you have a drive on its own channel.

The speed differences between SATA and IDE on DVD Burners is minimal, the only real difference IMO is that you dont need a huge IDE cable, and since most boards only have 1 IDE port, sometimes you need a SATA drive.
 
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