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Anyone still using IDE drives? - Jorge18 - 2011-11-24

Just wondering how XBMC runs off of an IDE drive. I have one laying around and I'd like to build another HTPC using it. Preferably someone running XBMC and a file server.

- davilla - 2011-11-24

it's fine.

- Beer40oz - 2011-11-24

What is IDE? lol

- paul - 2011-11-24

Beer40oz Wrote:What is IDE? lol
it should read EIDE and is the controll interface for PATA Hard drives and CDrom Drives.
But it's fast enough for xbmc.

- eskro - 2011-11-24

Beer40oz Wrote:What is IDE? lol

I Don't Enderstand

- Beer40oz - 2011-11-24

eskro Wrote:I Don't Enderstand

ok ok I am lost.... Rofl


IDE FTW!

- OniFactor - 2011-11-24

my OS runs off of 2 40gb IDE drives.. RAIDed soon.

- MartijnGP - 2011-11-24

That's no problem at all. An average harddisk can't make use of the full bandwidth provided by IDE/PATA anyway, let alone SATA. SATA is just more convenient because it's generally hot-pluggable, makes for less clutter and doesn't need master-slave settings.


I still have one IDE drive. It's 500 GB and it still runs fine after 5 years. Don't see a reason why to replace it with current HDD prices.