SATA vs EIDE...which is better

[Atreidae]

i am going to build a comp in a few months mostly for gaming, autocad work (2d and 3d), and some photoshop stuff, so it needs to be pretty high end (which i am planning on) but i was wondering which would be better: a wd 250 gb (or w/e is close to that) SATA or EIDE wd 250...also how would i boot from a SATA drive if that is a better choice??

 

[silverpig]

Either will do you fine, but I'd recommend the SATA just for future-proofness. You can always stick it in a new computer a few years from now.

To boot from that drive just go into the BIOS of your motherboard and set it in the boot order. Simple.

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[Crashman]

WD gives the same performance for SATA and EIDE drive which are otherwise the same. I recommend the EIDE for backwards compatability, in case your system goes down and you're forced to use one without SATA.

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[Mr5oh]

There is no real performance differance between SATA and IDE. Like Crashman said backwards compatiability would be nice, especially if something does go wrong. As for the future, I don't see IDE disappearing anytime soon, right now 98% (maybe 99%) of optical drives are IDE, and there doesn't seem to be a strong push to go SATA.

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