Hard Drive Question

[daj013]

I presently have a Intel 3.0C processor with an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard and 1 GB of Corsair XMS 3200 Ram. I have a Western Digital 120 GB EIDE hard drive connected as my master, which has Windows XP on that. I also have a 60 GB Western Digital EIDE slave which I use for my music and pictures.

I need a larger slave HD for this system to replace the 60GB drive. I was going to get another WD 120 GB EIDE but this motherboard will support a Serial ATA drive. Can I use both drives at the same time? the EIDE as my master and the Serial ATA as my slave. Would I gain anything by doing this or just stick with the 120 GB EDIE?
Obviously knowing what I know today I would have purchased the Serial ATA to begin with and be using that as my master for the operating system, but at this time I am not willing to dump everything and start over again.

Thanks David

 

[Fuchs]

depending on the speed of the 60gig, why not put your OS on that and use the larger for you slave?


I would partition a drive so large (120) for OS and Data seperate.

 

[GfW]

I am using a S-ATA drive as primary and en EIDE drive as secondary. They work fine together. There is a negligable difference in speed with the S-ATA drive, in my opinion ... nothing worth getting excited about.