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toga

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in a lot of systems i see people building, they have a raptor (presumably for boot/OS) and one or more IDE drives for storage. my question is this. if you are using only one more drive, why use IDE, instead of SATA? SATA drives are really just about the same price, and don't they provide increased bandwidth?

thanks, in advance.
 
toga said:
in a lot of systems i see people building, they have a raptor (presumably for boot/OS) and one or more IDE drives for storage. my question is this. if you are using only one more drive, why use IDE, instead of SATA? SATA drives are really just about the same price, and don't they provide increased bandwidth?

thanks, in advance.
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The problem with SATA is that it allows only one device per port. And most current SATA implementations have only two ports. Thus, you can only have a total of two SATA devices maximum in most systems. So, those of you who use three hard drives will have no choice but to go IDE for at least one of those drives if your SATA-equipped motherboard is like most.

Also, there is no current hard drive that can come anywhere close to maxxing out even an ATA/100 IDE interface, let alone SATA/150. And very few hard drives can start to even max out an ATA/66 IDE interface.
 
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