Re: about haddrive/heat/connectors etc...

Go for it, upgrade to SATA. I'm sure you'll get (even a small) speed boost.
Damo

"typeLL" <typeLL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Does bigger Harddrive (200-250 GB) size means more heat and use more
> power?
>
> I got a 2 year old motherboard, harddrive is connected to primary
> ide(blue),
> dvd-rw drive and cd-rom drive connected to secondary ide(black) set to
> master/slave.
> I notice that i got a 2 serial ata connector available, if for instance i
> try to upgrade to a new harddrive should i stay with the current
> configuration or should i make a transition to serial ata since its faster
> and improve airflow. will it be hard to make the transition to Serial ata
> since this is somewhat a old motherboard? Will it make difference on speed
> or
> will i see no difference at all?
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