What's not to love about IDE hard drives? They're cheap, they have insanely high storage capacities, and best of all, they're getting faster and faster every day.

While the IDE hard drive market has lacked any true innovations in quite a long time, we are seeing the emergence of many third, fourth, and fifth generation performance hard drives from the major players hitting the market. Even while IDE drives are still stuck at 7,200 RPM spindle speeds, the other major factors contributing to good overall disk performance have gradually gotten better with time.