SATA vs IDE

[ag3]

http://www.sata-io.org/satatechnology.asp

this tells u about Serial ATA. the fastest Parallel ATA can only go 133Mbytes/sec. Serial ATA has already surpassed this with 150Mbytes/sec and sometime this year or early next year it will be up to 300Mbytes/sec. then in a few more years a whopping 600Mbytes/sec!!! but i guess this isnt a good reason to get this awesome piece of technology.

Those speeds are what they are technicaly capable of. In reality, they don't even come close.

 

[atomicracer33]

basically what im saying why get IDE when it wont get any faster than 133Mbytes/sec...i know SATA wont get exactly 600Mbytes/sec...but it is very possible...either way SATA is the way to go...thats my story and im sticking to it

SATA was just introduced about a year ago and it is already faster that IDE so there is a great deal of potential for it...whereas IDE has been out since....well before i was born (1984)...u do the math