-=PCTechTalk=- Re: ide or sata hard drives?

That mobo has a built in SATA controller.  I suggest SATA if for no other 
reason than the small round cable vs wide flat ribbon cable allows better 
air circulation in the case.

I currently have two SATA drives and an IDE installed in my computer.  I 
have had no trouble communicating between them.  I do not forsee any problem 
ghosting from one to the other.  Especially if you have a later version of 
Ghost.

Any future computers I own will have a bare minimum installed inside the 
case such as a smallish HD for the OS and a CD/DVD ROM drive.  Everything 
else possible will be external including extra harddrives and the DVD 
Burner.  That will make it easy to move stuff to a new computer.  My mail 
store, address book and My Documents are now on an external drive.  Both of 
my dual boot WinXP installations can see it all.  My notebook will too when 
I get around to it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Moceri" <matt.moceri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 12:01 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- ide or sata hard drives?


> My hard drive is getting loud so I'm going to replace it.  My mobo is an 
> MSI-K7N2 Delta2 Platinum with;  AMD Athlon XP 2400 cpu & 1 gig memory. 
> Presently it has two hard drives; one 80 gig Western Digital primary hd 
> and a 40 gig WD secondary.  (Besides backing up data onto an external hard 
> drive, I also keep a back up of data on the second hard drive.)
> My problem is should I go with ide hard drives again or switch to one or 
> two sata drives.  They're pretty much cost the same price but which is 
> better?  Another concern is since I've never installed a sata hd, is it 
> going to be difficult installing one and will I have a problem ghosting 
> info from an ide hd onto a sata hd? My computer is running Windows XP sp2.
>
> The mobo has the most recent drives and bios installed. Here is a url for 
> the board;
>
> http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=592&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=171&cat3_no=89
>
>
> Thanks,  MM
>


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