SATA vs IDE

[Icedragon]

What is the difference between these 2? Im trying to decide which drive to get for a Abit IC7-G. What are the Pros and Cons of each?

 

[The Merlin]

I think SATA is like 33mbs faster

 

[npp]

Go serial ata for sure

 

[ThePCmaN]

yea... ive heard SATA is better than IDE !!!

 

[jolancer]

unless your just looking for storage and not speed.. like i gota a 250gig EIDE cause it was a little cheaper, and no need for a little bit of extra speed just to store stuff.

 

[Icedragon]

Im mostly looking for speed

 

[DoomUK]

Don't quote me here, but I've heard that current so-called "SATA" drives aren't really true SATA- they just use the SATA connection and aren't actually as fast as they're supposed to be... But like I say don't quote me on that

 

[The Merlin]

Go SATA

 

[Icedragon]

Don't quote me here, but I've heard that current so-called "SATA" drives aren't really true SATA- they just use the SATA connection and aren't actually as fast as they're supposed to be... But like I say don't quote me on that

Wait where the hell did you here that?

 

[jolancer]

im also not shur on the specifics, but i think hes talking about how alot of mother bourds dont support Native Command Queuing for the SATA controller, i think the mother bourd needs to support SATA Native command queuing in order for it to runn at its full speed... remember im just as fuzzy on the subject as DoomUK though, id needa research to find facts.