IDE or SATA?

There are two types of connecting a Hard disk and optical drives. These different connections do the same job but at a different speed. IDE is the old way of connecting these devices. IDE has a transfer rate of up-to 150MBP/s which sounds fast butt isn’t that fast. SATA however, has a DATA rate of up-to 6GBP/s, which is very fast indeed. SATA is found on all modern SSD’s, HDD’s and optical drives. Because SATA is so fast, It has made IDE extinct in modern Computers (2007 and onwards). There is also the type of hard drive SSD or HDD. SSD’s have no moving parts, instead they sore data like a USB stick, Making them very strong. The downside to SSD’s is that the have a small Read/write cycles, it has 100,000 which is a very small amount. So, SATA is the better interface to go for.

SATA

IDE