Buying Hard Drive

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  1. Knighty

    Knighty Member

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    ok, im building a new pc, and was wondering about hard drives, is it better to go for ide or sata, or a combination, and i need two hard drives - one for back up, so would it better to have 1 big sata drive then a smaller ide drive if thats possiable, or is there much differance between two ide drives and two sata drive.

    Ide Drive - http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=32012

    Sata drive -
    http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=50956

    those are the two drive i would get


     
  2. The_OGS

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    Buncha drives is better than 1 big one.
    Like a modest 80-120GB UltraIDE to start, and a coupla 120-160GB SATAs D: and E: would be nice (and not too expensive).
    Rather have that then 1 300GB drive, for many reasons.
    The ONLY downside is, you gotta fit them in your case and they can generate a lot of heat...
    But for performance, different drives (each on their own controller) is the way to go.
    L8R
     
  3. Knighty

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    does everyone else agree with this?

    yeh sounds kool, i would have an ultra ide 120gb and 1 sata 120gb (Y)
     

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