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Old 03-30-2007, 09:21 AM   #2 (permalink)
Destrox
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Essentially Ultra ATA is the same thing as Parallel ATA aka IDE aka UATA aka PATA blah blah. A older standard.

Your mobo supports 2x SATA connections, and SATA is the newest.

Now I dont know if your current drive is SATA or PATA, I'll assume PATA being 3~ years old.

Speed/quality wise go with SATA. (The sata drive really should be your OS drive though, a sata for storage and PATA for OS is a bit of a backwards thing.)

SATA is the new standard pretty much, and they are fairly cheap.

400+ gig for $120~


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Come to think about it, the best thing for you if you can take the hit.

Buy a SATA drive of say... 350/500 gb. Partition it so its like 80gb / 200 / 200 (at least this is what I do so Defragmenting goes a bit smoother and quicker on the drives i need them to be.)

Reinstall Windows on the 80gb, and keep you older drive (still has all the data on it) and copy stuff over.

It makes for a easier fresh start, and you'll have a MUCH faster drive. (Assuming your old drive is not SATA!)
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