IDE / SATA

hello people.
im going to get myself a new hard drive but i need help choosing 1!
what specs make them so special, and what is the difference between IDE and SATA harddrives. thanks.
Answer #1
Get a SATA…IDE are been phased out slowly…Soon most motherboards won’t support IDEs anympre…
Answer #2
ok cheers.
BUT what is like the proppa technical diffrences between sata and IDE?
Answer #3
SATAI has 1.5GB/s internal transfer speed
SATAII has 3.0GB/s internal transfer speed
IDE has something like 400MB/s internal transfer speed.
It all depends on what motherboard you have as to what you should get, if you have an old motherboard you will most likely need to get IDE.
Answer #4

left sata , right ide
ide are the old standart , it’s cheaper it’s effective but it take some place in the casing be sure that you motherboard take sata hard drive (and how many it can take..)
if it’s a drive for only put stuff on it and access it from time to time I wouldn’t buy a sata.. I would just get a cheaper ide drive since you don’t need really the speed if you plan to use it to have your windows/macOS/linux/ on it and play game you might get a sata since it’s more fast
Answer #5
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that isn’t true that IDE drives are cheaper as SATA drives – just compare prices for 500GB IDE and 500GB SATA…
i’ve compared them on my common stores, IDE’s are more expensive
greetings
Answer #6
i’d depend the ide you get .. most of the time when I look in the store when therE’s is no special ide are usually more cheaper .. it also depend of the rpm of the drive
Answer #7
cheers for the info, so sata are genarlly newer than ides?
Answer #8
Yeas..the SATA drives are the thing today…Even Laptops don’t use IDEs any longer…
Answer #9
IDE’s are a pain in the ass to plug in and work with. All those stupid master slave blabla
Why deal with the crap. Get a SATA drive. It saves a lot of space anyway. Speed wise SATA drives are not a heck of a lot faster but faster
Also there’ll probably be only a single IDE connector port on the motherboard so if you got an IDE DVD/CD drive then you can forget about the IDE HDD.
Answer #10
I’d say definately go for a SATA , and make sure ur mobo is compatible with sata….
IDE will soon be replaced evetually by SATA , espcially as SATA II is also in the makrket , soon mobo wont have IDE slots………..
From where i come from (India) there is a 150 rs ( 3$) difference b/w a sata and IDE for a 500 GB