HDDs...

[Sawell]

I'm thinking of shipping in around 500 HDDs to sell in the UK, based on the current market do you think I’d be best shipping IDE or SATA?

I've done market research on the matter and I'm torn tbh. To me it seems that your average consumer wants IDE, SATA is the better of the two but most computer users (not on about you guys) don't even know if their pc supports it; let alone what the difference is.

Or maybe the best option would be to go with the latest tech?

If you were in the market for a HDD(s) right now, like me you'd probably go for SATA over IDE if you have the ports, but could I shift 500 fast relying on just that?

Input greatly appreciated.

 

[AgentSmith]

funny u should bring this up because i have SATA enabled board supports raid, im in the market for a new HDD, i know that its faster and probably the difference in price cannot be too much.

But for me at the minute i would take a stable IDE with the best GB/best price over data accessing speed. I would say it depends at the market i would say more ppl would come and buy from you if you sold decent, cheap IDE than quality SATA.

 

[Ragnar]

I would probably take an IDE drive. I have a 200GB Seagate barracuda 7200rpm and a 250GB Seagate barracuda 7200rpm currently on my server machine and i only use them to store data like games, movies, series etc so speed isn't really an issue for me, and i've found IDE drives to be more reliable (just in my case i guess) as i have had 2 200GB Barracudas fail on me (bad sectors, weird anomalies) and i have had another 80GB IDE Seagate drive which has served me well (under heavy load all the time) for about 4 years now.

 

[TxGraphicz]

Well if your research tell's you that people prefer to buy IDE's then generally that is the way to go... Are you buying 500 in batch becuase it will be cheaper? Because there will be people wanting to buy SATA's aswell so maybe you could buy say 400 IDE and 100 SATA ... the SATA being for more private buyers for people who know what HD they want... This way if the SATA's do sell slowly you will still be brining in money from the wanted "IDE" HD's that you will be selling.


Tx.