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divemaster127:
I have a lot of ide drives but they are cheap to replace
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TheDriver:
SATA drives are cheap/getting cheaper, definetly the way to go. I have 2 hdd and a DVD in my desktop, as rMojoZ say's the space benefit's are ideal for airflow.

Regards.
DaOld Man:

--- Quote from: MrMojoZ on September 13, 2007, 05:31:24 pm ---No speed diffrence, you are still limited by the mechanical nature of the drive. The benefits are the cable size and length options and that most modern motherboards only have one IDE connection on them.

--- End quote ---

Actually, SATA is faster than IDE, just probably not fast enough to warrant an upgrade, unless you have the older ATA 100.
Here are some specs:

Common Buses and their Max Bandwidth
PCI   132 MB/s
AGP 8X   2,100 MB/s
PCI Express 1x   250 [500]* MB/s
PCI Express 2x   500 [1000]* MB/s
PCI Express 4x   1000 [2000]* MB/s
PCI Express 8x   2000 [4000]* MB/s
PCI Express 16x   4000 [8000]* MB/s
PCI Express 32x   8000 [16000]* MB/s
IDE (ATA100)   100 MB/s
IDE (ATA133)   133 MB/s
SATA   150 MB/s
Gigabit Ethernet   125 MB/s
IEEE1394B [Firewire]   100 MB/s

(From website: http://www.directron.com/expressguide.html)
MrMojoZ:

--- Quote from: DaOld Man on September 14, 2007, 01:56:20 pm ---Actually, SATA is faster than IDE, just probably not fast enough to warrant an upgrade, unless you have the older ATA 100.

--- End quote ---

It doesn't matter how fast the interface is, optical drives only spin so fast. Therefore a SATA optical gives no speed increae over an IDE one.
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