IDE or SATA

[passy]

I need a big hard drive (200GB/300GB) for a PVR box.

Any pro and cons between ATA and SATA in term of noise, performance, reliability?

 

[JN]

The only difference is that SATA cables are smaller

But seriously, reliability & noise will be the same, and if you go for SATA/2 you might get a bit of a performance increase. Look for a drive with NCQ if you can, that bumps performance a bit.

 

[mr_fishbulb]

Go for the SATA so you are future-proofing yourself

 

[FragTek]

SATA all the way... IDE hard drives are nearly becoming a thing of the past. You can find SATA hd's for less than IDE hd's these days.

No cons switching to SATA from IDE, I say go for it!

 

[Kronus]

As I've reccomended before the new Western Digital Caviar 400Gb drive has great reviews, and is somewhat cheep for an SATA II with NCQ for about $230 american but for the size you wanted check these out.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136003

and one with only an 8 meg buffer but cheap for 250 gigs.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144417

 

[FarFarAway]

And if your in the UK passy I thoroughly recommend SCAN and click on "Today Only". They usually have some ripping deals

 

[FragTek]

Even I can vouch for SCAN Bought our Xeon rigs case from em and they shipped it next day, perfect service!

 

[Trippledence]

You might not think that sata cables been small is that much of an advantage, but it really is. My stupid IDE's got in the way all the time till I got some rounded ones . Thanks to asus to not giving me rounded ones in the first place.

Considering there litraly the same price give or take a few squid, it would be stupid not to go SATA.

 

[adamh128]

I would have to agree here, wiring up the SATA drives is so much easier with smaller cables - they have nice connectors too

 

[succuba]

If your M/B supports Sata then go for it, but if it does not then you will have to get a PCI interface card to use the SATA drives, this should not be a problem if the drive will only be used for storage, but if you intent to boot from this SATA drive then you will have to install the SATA drivers from a floppy when installing WinXP.

I have used both SATA and PATA drives and can't see a real speed hit, there obviously is because of the data transfer rates, but i have never felt the hit.

regards

succuba

 

[Eguy]

I only use SATA, never IDE, I haven't seen a reson to use IDE