Re: Sata or IDE opinions sought

Peter, I have Vista on one of my partitions and it's slow as molasses.
Granted I only have 512MB DDR Ram but WinXP loads in less than half the
time.
I helped install a HP computer with Vista, 1G of ram and dual core
AMD Processor
for my friends mother. It still was slow.
"Peter in New Zealand" <peterbalplug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1200448464.301265@xxxxxxxxxx
I am about to clean install Xp Home on my Athlon 2.2 Gbyte with 1 Gbyte of
RAM and 256 Mbyte nVidia graphics card. I have two decent HDDs, one 120
Gbyte and the other 80 Gbyte, and both are less than two years old and run
flawlessly.

As an old computer jock since early DOS days I tend to think IDE, but can
some kind person offer me any thoughts about using the SATA as the system
drive instead? It doesn't matter from my point of view, but is there some
clear advantage to using the SATA over the IDE please? Many thanks.

--
Peter in New Zealand. (Email address is fake)
Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
compulsive computer fiddler.




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