This may be a stupid question, but I’m on meds, plz humor me.
I have a (3) Ide hdds running currently. (1) of them has the OS.
The mobo supports (2) SATA drives.
Can I install the (2) sata drives with no conflict? Purely storage.
No RAID or special setup.
Tks
shouldnt be a problem.
i had issues with a windows install doing the exact opposite though, putting the o/s on sata and storage on pata. had to disconnect the pata drives while installing to prevent anything from being written to them. its solid now though.
no conflicts, and you dont even need to disconnect pata to do it.
:tup:
Thought so, wanted to 2x check.
thanks nyspeed
there is an option in your bios to make this issue dissapear, it should be under hard drives and the way the os sees them during install.
depends on which bios your using, if i knew i could tell you for future refrence
150mb/s vs 135ish mb/s… eh. For the extra $10 I dunno if i’ll bother.
:ponder:
it was on a gigabyte k8n-pro board using the most recent bios at the time.
what would this option be called?
i doubt any drive you get will top 100 MB/s anyway.
10 bucks for a clean connector is worth it to me though…
it should be under drives or raid options.
i had to set mine to SATA and turn off the raid to get winblows to see the pata drives while installing.
not worth it at all
Exactly. While this is just a file server & dl machine, transfer speeds are nice. But I doubt I’ll see the gains anyhow.
Not to mention ost files are accessed over a damned router anyhow. lol
tks gents
-edit- and i already have round ide cables.
get raptors if you want blazing speed, it rivals SCSI.
windows could see both the sata and pata drives without a problem. the issue came from writing part of the boot record to the pata drive, even though the o/s is being installed onto the sata drive. it seemed like a fairly common problem when sata boards were first coming out. hopefully things have changed with some of the newer stuff coming out.
have raptors or scsi drives even topped 150 MB/s yet?
it seems odd that sataII (300 MB/s) is out even though no drive to my knowledge has surpassed sata1’s capabilties.
part of the raptors speed is its big cache and 10k rotational speed, that plays alot on how drives perform, along with the transfer rates
^ word.
Thats why I look for 7200rpm 16mb buffers as minimums for my drives. 
Raptors…Im gonna eventually get a 74gb one for my OS/Games.
BTW if anyone is looking for a decent deal on an external HDD,sams club has a simpletech 160gb for $99 .USB 2.0,7200rpm. Good if you like taking your stuff with you,good for porn.