SATA options

entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
edited July 2005 in Hardware
Well, I need more hard drive space. I'm thinking about getting this one tomorrow.

The only problem is that it's SATA. My other two drives are also SATA, and I only have two slots on the motherboard for it. So my question is: should I also get a SATA PCI card? Or will a SATA adapter work? I'd like to keep my OS drive straight through, just for the sake of that "extra edge." But I need to put one of these different.

Or I could get this, but it doesn't have a 16 meg cache. Is the extra cache worth the (heh heh) extra cash?

So what should I do? Buy a SATA -> IDE adapter, get a SATA PCI card, or just forget that drive and buy an IDE one?

Comments

  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    Get a SATA PCI card mate, for what the cost of a single adapter is, you can get a PCI card with two slots. Possibility for more storage :D
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited July 2005
    Haha. I might. But I'm thinking more and more I should get IDE. But I need to know: is the 16 meg cache worth it, instead of an extra 20 gigs at $20 less? Nobody has ever been able to answer that question for me :(

    I'm also going to ghost over my os drive to my other 120 gig. But I don't have the faintest clue how. Anyone want to help me here, too?
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited July 2005
    Anyone? I'd like to order tonight, if possible, and I don't know why no one on the intarweb has done an 8meg vs 16 meg cache comparison. It's strange, I tell ya.
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