Hard Drive - SATA vs IDE

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If you buy the same hard drive in either SATA or in IDE, both drives will be the exact same speed and use the same type of buffer. Only the interface is different. SATA offers more headroom for burst transfers, but the underlying limits are the same mechanically with the drives.

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