80GB SATA or 120GB IDE to put in enclosure??

[shmegal325i]

I had two hard drives sitting around so I decided to buy a IDE/SATA enclosure to use one as an external hard drive.

Hitachi Deskstar 80GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145082

Seagate Barracuda 120GB 7200RPM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148104

Both have 8MB cache and the Hitachi seems to have better seek time.

Anyways, 40GB of extra space would be nice to have. Is there a big difference between SATA and IDE interfaces, as well as the quality of the drives themselves (i.e performance, reliability, overall build quality)? Go for the extra space or the performance?

 

[JesterJJZ]

You won't notice a difference. You're obviously not shuffling mass amounts of data around since you're even asking for advice and such small drives, not meant to sound negative. If you're after some extra space might as well have the bigger drive.