IDE or SATA, which would you go with?

SATA can go to higher GB and some motherboards have stop support IDE... if you are buying check the "RPM"(rotations per minute) and cache memory the higher the better

SATA is future-ready, as the previous poster mentioned. Many newer motherboards do not even have IDE connectors. Plus the bigger, better hard drives are and will be SATA drives. IDE will soon hit it's limit, if it hasn't already.

I would just get a new SATA drive. You can grab a 500GB Samsung F3 from Newegg for $54.99. SATA is faster, more modern, and the F3s are supposedly very fast. DVD drives, on the other hand, don't really have much a performance drop (if at all) on IDE.

ermm sata is 150MB/s? yeah... you really dont know much, sata 3 is right now up to a max of 6.0gbps

not that there are drives that can use that speed but still

I got a sinpoint F3, one of the fastest mechanical drives right now, i get about 120Mb/s read with that, but ofc there are SSD drives that use sata that go up to 250Mb/s+

there is no reason at all to get another IDE, any new sata drive will outpreforme it and will be running laps around it while the slow old IDE is trying to work.

hi N, what to do, what top do don't they only know i am wanting to use this darn computer without all of these decisions!? why not throw their question in their face and talk to your computer manufacturer they can answer that question cause they built that computer so they would know which way you should go like alice as all of those munchkins was telling alice where to go. now if i had my rathers i would ask if i could upgrade to a 160gb harddrive like sony the best on the market but they all are built with a system of their own. like dig this i was at a friends business and we were tossing questions at each other about computers and a customer called and when he was told who it was he replied i don't want to talk to him. then he looked at me and said here is one you might apretiate this guy come into the shop and ask if he placed a 160 gb in a 225 gb motherboard would it give him better memory. i started laughing then we took the time to figure out all of his problems he did it and everything from shorts to replacing his motherboard his harddrive and not to mention all of his shorts that he would have in his electric system. good luck hope i was helpful to you

Sata has another benefit the cable is a lot smaller than the IDE cable making routing a lot simpler, good luck..

Sata. it's more future ready. Ide has already been dumped. Just sayin :P

Go with sata. It's faster and cheaper.

Good luck.