any HARD DRIVE specialists on tonight?

[Marc]

I know computers well but been outta the game long enough to forget what SATA gives as an advantage over IDE so:

in lamens terms is it best to get a new HD with SATA and connect that way?

my current HD's are IDE only but presume they will run alongside a SATA one anyway?

might not need them at all as looking at a 1TB HD.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

i don't know about SATA and IDE but I know never to get a Lacie drive ever again. High rate of failure.

 

[Marc]

dont worry chaps got help elsewhere, I always favour Western Digital hard drives, always been pretty reliable for me.

 

[Cian]

If your current hard drives are IDE you very likely do not have a SATA controller. In this case you cannot use SATA hard drives without getting a PCI SATA controller and realistically, this is way, way too much work.

SATA is faster, and uses smaller/neater cables. Thats all the obvious benefits.

If you do have a SATA controller its 99% likely that your current drives would work alongside a SATA drive, no real reason why they shouldn't other than maybe a buggy BIOS.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

dont worry chaps got help elsewhere, I always favour Western Digital hard drives, always been pretty reliable for me.

Wise man. I'd recommend Western Digital too!

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

I would love to help you lot but I'm just off to clean up my buggy BIOS. Now then where did I leave the Dettol...

 

[willyfantastic]

SATA is better than IDE, i dont know why.

WD and Seagate are the best for hard drives, yet i have inexplicably got a pair of 500gb Samsung Satas in my pc. dont know why

 

[bhaexpress]

If your current hard drives are IDE you very likely do not have a SATA controller. In this case you cannot use SATA hard drives without getting a PCI SATA controller and realistically, this is way, way too much work.

SATA is faster, and uses smaller/neater cables. Thats all the obvious benefits.

If you do have a SATA controller its 99% likely that your current drives would work alongside a SATA drive, no real reason why they shouldn't other than maybe a buggy BIOS.

My motherboard has both SATA and IDE controllers so I run types of device in my PC.

 

[Marc]

If your current hard drives are IDE you very likely do not have a SATA controller. In this case you cannot use SATA hard drives without getting a PCI SATA controller and realistically, this is way, way too much work.

SATA is faster, and uses smaller/neater cables. Thats all the obvious benefits.

If you do have a SATA controller its 99% likely that your current drives would work alongside a SATA drive, no real reason why they shouldn't other than maybe a buggy BIOS.

mobo has SATA stuff all over it so it takes it just fine, thanks for the warning though.

 

[Lethargic]

SATA is becoming the standard low cost storage medium and is faster and supposedly more reliable than IDE, it also adds the possibilities of cheap RAID.
SATA disks are also used as the cheaper/slower option in enterprise storage systems so they must be pretty reliable, but it wont be that long before solid state becomes a reality in home PCs.

 

[clapham_gull]

SATA is becoming the standard low cost storage medium and is faster and supposedly more reliable than IDE, it also adds the possibilities of cheap RAID.
SATA disks are also used as the cheaper/slower option in enterprise storage systems so they must be pretty reliable, but it wont be that long before solid state becomes a reality in home PCs.

I was told by a lecturer that the move to solid state is going to prove interesting.

Many classic computer algorithms have been designed to work alongside a "slow device" like a hard drive and with limited memory.

When the "offline" storage approaches the speed of on board memory (and everything quite literally becomes memory) many of the accepted way of doing and thinking (which have now been around for quite a while in computing terms) about going to prove obsolete.