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SATA advice

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Paithar

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Ok. Currently I have two 80GB western digital hard drives (IDE, Not SATA) and for the most part they've served me well. Over the last couple of months though I've been having strange data loss problems and the occasional disk check error upon start up. The most recent one just happened and my pc will not get past the Windows splash screen without automatically rebooting again. I figure this is going to require a complete reinstall of windows to get past this one.

Anyway, I'm currently in the process of building a new pc and I got to thinkin that this might be a good time to jump on the SATA bandwagon. The problem is, I don't really know diddly squat about SATA hard drives. I mean are they really faster than IDE? Besides needing a SATA cable do I need to have anything else to get one to work in my new system like a different power supply connection?

Can any of you suggest a good SATA hard drive? I'm partial to Western Digital but I don't have to go with them. I found through pricewatch.com a 160GB Western Digital hard drive for a pretty decent price but it's specs said it was just a 7200rpm 8mb cache drive and I've seen IDE drives with those specs so I'm wondering if it's really much of a deal to go with the SATA drive instead of the IDE?

Any info for me?

Thanks,
Paithar
 
The difference is minimal for the most part. IDE and SATA drives are identical with the exception of the connectors. All you really need to use them are the SATA cables and a power supply or adapter with SATA connectors.

SATA being similar to IDE pick whatever brand you want since the differences are the same as IDE drives.

Personally I like the slimmer cables over the parallel cables we're all used to. Probably can't hurt to start using them but I doubt it would really kill you down the road.
 
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