New HDD, should I swap out the original?

[Slick Fork]

Hi there,

I've ordered a new WD Caviar black 1.5 tb drive for my system. Currently, I've got a 1tb CB which is a SATA II drive 32mb cache accelerated with a 64gb SSD via Intel's rapid storage technology. The new 1.5tb drive is meant to replace a 150gb old drive that I had been using to backup photos and music and accommodate growth.

Anyways, this new drive is SATA III 64mb cache and I'm wondering if it's worth ghosting the older, slower black drive onto this one and using the new one as my primary since it's faster; and relegating the old one to dedicated internal backup. Would it even make a difference considering the old one is accelerated via IRST? I'm guessing it's not going to be worth the trouble but I thought I'd ask just the same.

Cheers

 

[Elixer]

I hope you have multiple backups available, but in any case, on HDs, SATA III/III/I is pretty much all the same. They just can't throw the data at you fast enough.
This is why most people just get a SSD for the OS, and use HDs for data & backup drives.

 

[Slick Fork]

Yes, the new drive will expand my internal backup and I've got a USB2 drive that I'd like to replace soon for external backup.

Probably will get an SSD for programs the next time I feel like reinstalling windows

 

[kbp]

I would do a clean install to the new drive. First, turn off the acceleration on the old drive.
Once up and running turn the cache acceleration back on but now for the new drive.