which do you have - SATA cable or an IDE cable on your harddisk?
By chewydoll
@chewydoll (86)
Philippines
February 8, 2007 10:23am CST
why as a newer technologies emerge, new machines tends to become obsolete rapidly?
More and more computer buyers prefer to have the SATA cable than to the IDE cable installed in their PCs.
As i search on the PC manufacturing trends, SATA hotplug cable has more capacity to hold data transfers processing capability than its predecesor technology which is the IDE cable plugs. It can accomodate 80% datas more than the capacity of IDE cable. Whereas both accesories can be purchased on the almost the same price.
What do you think? Are these business trends of the manufacturers enable them to grab more money from the buying consumers? Tell me your opinions.
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7 responses
@librarian (181)
• United States
10 Feb 07
I have sata but not a sata raid. My first ever hard drive failure was with a sata raid.
@lameran (1147)
• Indonesia
9 Feb 07
I think sata interface is great, if you asking which one should we get, than we should look to our own system, if our motherboard allready to be plug with the sata cable or not, and if we decide to go with old IDE PATA than we should consider also, are we going to use the motherboard or the whole system long enough from now on ? maybe thats a little my opinion about deciding which HD interface should we go.
@chewydoll (86)
• Philippines
10 Feb 07
Absolutely correct! we need to look first on the system before trying to decide what is compatible. however, there are certain peripherals that has a requisites of what must be the appropraite interface should to connect with. An HDD of exceeding 120GB will be absolutely driven by SATA interface connections.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
9 Feb 07
I am using a SATA connected hard drive, although it would not make a great deal of difference in my case.
Several years ago I had 5 IDE devices on a single computer, which were CD writer, DVD rom, LS120, Travan drive and a hard drive. This meant that I needed a controller card to support my hard drive. With the changes in technology I no longer use either a LS120 or a Travan tape drive, so I have more than enough connected potential with the IDE interface.
@chewydoll (86)
• Philippines
10 Feb 07
What a nice choices of flexibility you have! are those stuffs similarly works with uni-interface ports?
if your SATA connected HDD would not make any differences even, then maybe your HDD speed will be the factor likewise.
@mbarryton (1872)
• United States
10 Feb 07
i have a western digital raptor 150gig hooked up via Sata and one 20 gig IDE, Sata is well worth it, it totally eats up my old seagate i had before that was IDE
@chewydoll (86)
• Philippines
10 Feb 07
500 post mark is not a requisite to post photos. well, so good that you are on the latest trend. I am wishing to have SATA2 but my motherboard is not compatible with. It takes a lots of peripherals to change to synchronize once again. From motherboards, HDDs and am now sometimes get bored of changing now and then.
@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
8 Feb 07
i've a sata cable. my computer was custom made for $2000 three years ago. i need the fast cable with a double os in the hard drive. i ask a lot of my poor computer. the cable came with the mother board and the computer was put together by the guy at the pc shop. i've sense upgraded my cd/dvd writer.
@chewydoll (86)
• Philippines
10 Feb 07
Perfect choice! though 'twas thre years ago yet you're on the trend my friend. It is still the same technology that most PCs are being installed with but... quite... i guess with relatively lower prices compared than it was first introduced.
