sata question

[euphoria651]

I have had my computer for just over a yr now and currently have a 80gb ide hard drive. I am looking at getting a new 200-250gb hdd soon, and am wondering whether to get sata or not. i would need to buy a pci card to support sata. can u run sata and ide together? are they raid compatible with each other? the main reason i am looking at sata is so that if i do a full upgrade in the next yr or so i will be able to keep the sata drive rather than haveing 2 outdated ide drives? any ideas. also if i was going to go sata, what would be the best brand of hadd and pci card? cheers

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[sjonnie]

No need to get SATA, IDE ports will be around for along time yet. Damm, computers still have serial and PS/2 ports!

 

[euphoria651]

is it worth it for the performance increase though? and is it even possible to get sata and ide together?


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[fishmahn]

No and yes, in that order.

Currently HDD's can't use all the bandwidth of ATA/100, let alone ATA/133 and SATA/150, so the performance difference is negligable (sp?).

Mike.

 

[euphoria651]

ill go ide then i think, cheers

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