Quote Originally Posted by Bec View Post
Jim, have you switched out to the SATA drives yet? They do have external drive boxes to house the SATA if you don't have SATA available on your motherboard. The way they were explained to me was, think of the IDE drive pipeline as being about as wide as a sipping straw in a mixed drink, and the pipeline for a SATA being like a big round milkshake straw. Much faster transfers as a result.
I'm not sure what SATA is. My internal drive is a SCSI RAID 0 drive. And my externals are Firewire