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I am going to buy 120 GB Hard Drive for my desktop PC ? Which is better SATA or IDE ?
I am going to buy 120 GB Hard Drive for my desktop PC ?
Which is better SATA or IDE ?
How can i know that which one my motherboard supports whether SATA or IDE ?
How much should be the rpm 7200 or more ?
Which manufacturer : HITACHI, MAXTOR, SEAGATE, INTEL SSD, TOSHIBA or WESTERN DIGITAL ?
thanks
The differences between SATA and IDE are not a much as most answers would lead you to believe. SATA is simpler to install and administer due to its very simple data and power cables. IDE controllers allow for more drives per cable which restrict internal airflow more. I find that IDE connectors almost never come loose like earlier SATA cables. The jumperless SATA drives are easy to deal with, as opposed to IDE needing all drives to be set correctly(this confused a lot of people). I still feel the move from Molex power plugs to be a mistake as it simplified and standardized power.
Drive speed is noticeable between 5400 and 7200, but you won’t see any recent drives at the slower speed unless they are laptop 2.5″ ones.
Drive manufacturers all have similar specs and warranties. I have used Hitachi, Samsung, Fujitsu, Seagate, Maxtor and Western Digital. I like Hitachi and Western Digital best currently. I have had a long series of problems in the past few years with Seagate,(currently I am awaiting the return of my 8th drive since 2006). Seagate does have an excellent warranty return system better than Samsung which is a royal pain.
In terms of performance, there is usually little noticeable difference between IDE and SATA due to the internal drive data transfer speeds. What I am talking about here is the read and write performance of the internal disks. All use the same basic system and it has been the bottleneck of disk based data storage for some time. The window dressing of more internal cache and dual processors is used to try to improve the apparent performance by reading more into these larger caches, such that when the drive’s cache suffers a miss the latency becomes obvious.
I buy what I need and use an appropriate size. Is 120GB enough or are you looking at a cheap used drive? I no longer waste my time and money on used. Any benefits to be derived form the small savings are usually lost when it fails.
Good luck.
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