which hard disk is good Sata or Id

Question

i heard frm the pc repairing shop that the sata hard disk is not good, id hard disk was good, sata is having much more problems to the customers,pls tell me which one is better to buy

Answer 1

Well i just wiped my old computer and reinstalled the OS. It was a pain in the butt with Sata because the HD wasn't loading right. I havn't had a problem with it failing but i still prefer IDE hard drives.

Answer 2

IDE is an older technology, SATA is more modern and faster.



PCs use IDE disk drives while servers use SCSI disk drives which are generally faster. The technology for IDE drives is called ATAPI or ATA.



SCSI are much better and faster. IDE gets slow when you queue up the jobs (try copying multiple files from different partitions, and then start copying from your flash drive to desktop...) SATA allows a separate channel for each drive which makes the flow of information faster.



I think that if you set up SATA RAID then you have a safer and faster setup, with much of the advantage of SCSI and added safety (if one disk fails you can recover it).

Answer 3

Depends on your PC. Most newer PCs are shipping with SATA drives. The advantage to SATA is that they have a faster read/write time than IDE drives. Along with that, IDE is being reduced to supporting optical drives while IDE HDs are becoming harder to find. Here is the kicker, your motherboard may not support SATA. If it doesn't you can add a SATA controller or you can just stick with IDE. I have used both and have had no problems with either. Good luck.

Answer 4

SATA 2 is better because te cache size is getting bigger on them and that makes the seek, read and write function a lot faster. Not only that if you compair an ide 100 transfer rate to a SATA 1.5 or 3.0 there is a big diffrence.

Answer 5

SATA is better, the problem your shop told you about is probably when using RAID setups.



RAID-0 for example, when 1 harddisk dies, you loose data on all the connected harddisks, this can be a problem.



However you can also just connect your SATA harddisks like your used to as SATA, RAID gives faster performance, No RAID gives better insurrance.