Hard Drives- IDE SATA?

Before you even consider SATA, is it supported by your motherboard? If not then you would need a controller card as well. You can in fact run both without any issues if you have the proper controllers.

FALSE (in most cases)

Wow! I can't believe how many here have gotten this wrong. It just shows how much of the SATA hype has warped the mainstream's view.

When it comes to the hardware, an IDE (PATA) hard drive is more than 99% identical to a first generation SATA drive. The basic makeup of the drives is pretty similar.

The real difference sets in with the 2nd generation of SATA (also called SATA II or SATA 2.0). These puppies have extra features like Native Command Queuing (NCQ) which can significantly decrease disk access time. In some cases, you could see as much as a 15-20% increase in overall performance over a standard SATA or IDE hard drive.

The newest thing in the SATA world is 3Gb/s drives. Don't be fooled by the speed rating. It is talking about the bandwidth on the channel being wider to allow more traffic through at once A single drive is like a single car travelling down a 4-lane highway. The extra lanes don't matter to just one car, much like the extra bandwidth to just one drive.. It's when you build large drive arrays (RAID) that many company servers have, where you start to see the benefit of the extra bandwidth.

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WIth all that said and done, SATA is still the choice of the future. If you have an IDE hard drive now, it's not worth upgrading to an SATA drive unless your motherboard already supports it and you go with an SATA drive that has NCQ. Otherwise, the IDE interface will do just fine until your next major system upgrade.

SATA runs much faster than IDE. You should be able to use SATA and IDE at the same time. Just make sure your Motherboard supports SATA, since it's a fairly new technology.

SATA and PATA are both IDE drives.

Serial ATA and Parallel ATA are different interfaces for IDE drives. SATA drives support higher transfer speed than PATA drives and all the hard drive manufacturers are shifting their products toward SATA interface.

Since the latest drives all support SATA interface you're going to get more technologically advanced drives going with the SATA interface.

PATA peak out at 133 MBps and SATA peak out at 300 MBps.

Although the hard drives never really get near these two bottlenecks, it's always better to have more headroom than not.

In terms of which drive is going to be faster? Given a drive that's equal in spec all except for the interface, SATA drive wins out a hair.

Of course if you have more than one drive and you're trying to run a RAID configuration, you'll definitely notice the difference between PATA and SATA. SATA will win hands down.

Sata Hard disks are faster that IDE & it is of new technology used in the manufacturing of hard drive. You can operate both SATA & IDE Hard disks in your computer. SATA will not override IDE.

But it is prefered to have SATA as primary & IDE as secondary as the performance of IDE may affect performance of SATA if you have it other way

sata harddisc is more power full and speediar than normal ones.modern motherboards has only the facilty to connect satahard disc.by adding a sata connector card yu can connect a sata harddisc to yur computer,but its is riscy and it may not work properly.becoz raid config is one of the most problem of sata hardisc.we can use both sata and ide harddisc same time on our system.sata harddisc is not backward compatabile Ie;windows 98,me may not work on sata properly

Make sure you have SATA power connectors as well - I cam close to finding that out the hard way. My MB supports it, my case doesn't

SATA is more faster

But it require differene connector if that connector is on yr Motherboard then u can connect.

yes it is true a sata harddisk is fast but if OS is XP or NTFS and if XP crash it is not sure to recover the data.