Finally Going to upgrade from IDE to SATA

Ignore the interface speeds (1.5Gb/s and 3.0Gb/s) as they effectively mean nothing in terms of performance. The only time you really need to pay attention to it is when you're hooking the drive up to the motherboard. Older motherboards don't support the faster interface speed meaning the drive won't work if not jumpered accordingly.

I would say avoid the Raptor unless you are going to be using your computer for something that will take full advantage of the faster access times offered by those drives. Gaming I find benefits more from drives with a higher sustained data throughput rate (like the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 series) unless you want faster load times as opposed to higher framerates.

yea right now i got a 200gb 8mb cache 7200RPM drive that works perfect.

im just gonna use it in the new system.. my parts should be here tomorrow i just prep'd the case, and now im burning a cd with all the install files for whatever programs i use to make things alittle smoother. Im just gonna stick to the IDE and forget about sata untill it's a must.

and yea i think going to 2GB will be the better move. Although im sure 1GB is still ok these days... but that 2GB just sounds nicer lol.

Ok thanks for the replies.

Rob.