Quote Originally Posted by Joe Blog View Post
Ide is an old data transfer method/way that was used widely until about 5 or 6 years ago

Sata is the replacement for IDE because its alot faster, all new computers use sata because of this.

so because ive upgraded to a motherboard that uses sata i've got to buy a new hard drive and dvd rom
AHCI.
Any relevance to this?

And I heard about and tinkered with IDE transfer speed since a year ago.
Same time I got this computer. Luckily I've learned my lesson and reset it to its default settings.