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**PanamaGal** · 01-07-2007, 02:10 PM

SATA drives really shouldn't be any more expensive than IDE, and a few sites that I have checked out recently actually have same size/speed/cache SATA drives a dollar to a few dollars cheaper than IDE. SATA has more bandwidth than IDE, although right now given the current state of technology, the real-world noticeable difference is very slight. It has better integrity of connectivity by providing error-checking capability, it is hot swappable, and perhaps best right now, the cables are much smaller which allow for better airflow inside the case, and the cables can be much longer, if needed, than IDE without causing impediment.

01-07-2007, 02:10 PM	#6 (permalink)
PanamaGal Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Panama Posts: 1,240 OS: WinXP Pro SP2; Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista Ultimate; Vista Business	SATA drives really shouldn't be any more expensive than IDE, and a few sites that I have checked out recently actually have same size/speed/cache SATA drives a dollar to a few dollars cheaper than IDE. SATA has more bandwidth than IDE, although right now given the current state of technology, the real-world noticeable difference is very slight. It has better integrity of connectivity by providing error-checking capability, it is hot swappable, and perhaps best right now, the cables are much smaller which allow for better airflow inside the case, and the cables can be much longer, if needed, than IDE without causing impediment. __________________ It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.