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Originally Posted by molloby
I would suggest sata instead of ide if you have the option (ie you haven't already got the HD), it is a much nicer install and is oh so much better when transfering large amounts of data.
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SATA drives transfer data at the same rate that IDE hard drives do. The only way an SATA drive can be faster is if they're in a RAID, and even then, the performance increase is marginal.
-Lasereth
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