I am thinking about purchasing a new hard drive, I have a HP pavilion with an ASUS CUW-AM mobo. Now im not sure what the difference is between SATA, IDE, RAID etc. which one should I choose? and is there any thing else I should take into consideration before buying one(aside from the size)?
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Jump to PostIDE is good old classic connection, and as far as I know all mobo's support this. There may be a few exceptions for very very very uber leet new ones however.
SATA is much quicker than IDE, but not all mobo's support it, and it does add to the …
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