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hard drives ide/sata/raid??
Name: gaetan Date: April 18, 2005 at 15:05:00 Pacific OS: win xp pro CPU/Ram: amd athlon 64 3200+, 1gb
Comment:
hello, please could someone clarify the diffrent types of hdd available. I currently have 2 ide hdds. One is 20gb and has windows installed on it, and the other is 80gb which has all my video work and music etc etc. I have now run out of space and am looking to buy a new big hdd but am confused at which one to buy. do serial ata drives work the same way as ide drives? or is it easier to just get a normal ide drive? my mother board is a Asus K8SVE Deluxe if that helps. thank you!
Name: OtheHill Date: April 18, 2005 at 15:19:45 Pacific
Reply:
OK first of all does your WinXP CD contain SP1 or better? There are some issues that need to be dealt with when installing an internal ATA or SATA HD larger than 137GB. That said, SATA drives connect to a different type of controller than ATA (IDE) drives. Each SATA drive has its own controller, which is beeter than sharing the available bandwidth like ATA does. As far as raw speed goes neither type ever transfers even close to the theorical transfer speeds of SATA = 150MB/sec or ATA = up to 133MB/sec. YOur MBoard should have SATA controllers so that is what you should buy. If you want to install WinXP on the new drive you will need to answer my first question.
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Response Number 2
Name: gaetan Date: April 19, 2005 at 12:40:51 Pacific
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hello, thanks for your reply! I have sp2 installed on my system and have it on cd too. thanks again!
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