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Need HD choice help plus SATA problem.

Oyeve

Oyeve

Lifer
Hi all. Heres my dillema. I have 6 HDs in my system going slightly over a terabyte of total storage. I have one HD that is PATA/100 that is a Seagate 7200 series that I put all of my mp3 and music files on. I have exceeded that drives space and am looking to get a 300gb Seagate to replace it so I can add the other 100gb of music I have on another drives. The prob I have is with my boot drive. It is a SATA drive and last year or so when I installed it everything was fine but I noticed that my boot times and access times were very slow. Running HD tests showed that even the slowest PATA drive was spanking the SATA drive by 500%! My mobo has 2 SATA connections so I move the boot drive to the second SATA connection and everything worked great so I eventually forgot about the first SATA connection. But now that I want to get a larger drive to replace my music HD I am worried that my first SATA connection is gonna flake. Should I just get a PATA drive or should I take a chance and get a SATA? The SATA drive I have in there now is a Maxtor 250gb on the secnd SATA connetor. (took a chance with maxtor, so far so good 🙂 ) All of my other HDs are non-maxtor.
 
I would just get a few EZ swap trays and work from there as do you really need all your MP3's on 1 HD?
 
Originally posted by: LED
I would just get a few EZ swap trays and work from there as do you really need all your MP3's on 1 HD?
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Already have some trays. I would prefer all my music on one drive. All my drives serve a seperate purpose each. I do a lot of music editing/mixing editing and would like all my sound file in one location.
 
Well if you already have some trays then pick up 1 PATA 400gigger as you won't notice any performance difference between that and a SATA esp for what you using it for.
 
Sounds like a motherboard problem. If you only have two SATA ports then they're using the same controller so it shouldn't be a driver problem. You might as well just save $10 and get a PATA drive if you don't want to buy a new board.
 
Originally posted by: Tostada
Sounds like a motherboard problem. If you only have two SATA ports then they're using the same controller so it shouldn't be a driver problem. You might as well just save $10 and get a PATA drive if you don't want to buy a new board.
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yeah, its just gonna replace a PATA anyway so may as well stick to PATA.


Thanks everyone.
 
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