SATA drives are defiantly faster in terms of performance, so if your motherboard supports them then go SATA. Apart from performance, SATA drives are also cheaper than IDE drives as IDE is an old technology that is being phased out. So for less dollars you can get a higher performing and larger capacity drive.
Can you run both IDE & SATA hard drives? Sure, if your motherboard supports it then you can run both drive types.
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