More seriously: Speaking for myself, I still use PATA drives and with the widespread availability and cheapness of SATA drives (there's a Western Digital terabyte SATA drive on TigerDirect for $80) now is a pretty good indicator that it may be time to upgrade. I know for me there's a lot of technology that has come out in the time since I built my most recent machine (Quad Cores, 64-bit OSes, DDR3 RAM, stupid crazy advances with video cards, etc.).
I know you're saving your cash for D*Con, so that may not be an option. Are you replacing your HD because the old one failed or is just out of room?
Don't mix PATA & SATA, you'll kill your throughput to PATA levels. If you have an older PATA hard drive you want to keep, get an enclosure for it and run it external, or get the converter snackpants mentioned, which is cheaper
Go pick-up a SATA to IDE conversion dongle at CompUSA (they are TigerDirect now) at the Florida Mall. Then when the upgrad time comes, you can still keep the drive.
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More seriously: Speaking for myself, I still use PATA drives and with the widespread availability and cheapness of SATA drives (there's a Western Digital terabyte SATA drive on TigerDirect for $80) now is a pretty good indicator that it may be time to upgrade. I know for me there's a lot of technology that has come out in the time since I built my most recent machine (Quad Cores, 64-bit OSes, DDR3 RAM, stupid crazy advances with video cards, etc.).
I know you're saving your cash for D*Con, so that may not be an option. Are you replacing your HD because the old one failed or is just out of room?
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