- Oct 5, 2005
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I bet its been discussed many times but I want some user opinions. Does the SATA interface itself really help in performance at all in real world usage?(games, disk defrag, etc.) I am really wondering because IDE can be found for cheap at B&M stores but these noobs keep saying you're a serious dumb one if you get IDE now. Aside from the smaller cables, hot swapping, etc., is there even a performance difference at all? As I understand it, I thought it was the drive's read/write speeds, rotation speed, cache, etc. that made HDDs faster, not the SATA interface itself, but it just seems like SATA drives are faster because better, faster drives are based on that interface.