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Performance of XP on separate drive

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Schott

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Can someone answer this one: If I were to run XP on an IDE drive, and use a SATA drive for data storage and programs, is there going to be a performance hit? Or do I need to put XP on the SATA drive and run it from there?

I have a system up and hopefully running now with XP installed on a 40GB IDE drive, and I finally got a Seagate SATA drive that wasn't doa. Any suggestions, or insights?

 
Depending on the RPM speed and cache of the pata, there might be a performance decrease on the pata. If they're the same in RPM and cache, you won't notice one.
 
You could put the Windows swap file on the SATA. Some people create a separate partition for it; others don't.


unmerited
 
both interfaces perform about the same....note: almost all 40GB drives are slow in comparison to newer larger drives
 
The interface doesn't matter much unless you have two very fast drives sharing a PATA interface. The difference is which drive has faster hardware. Newer models will usually have faster transfer rates and seek times.
 
for that setup I'd just leave windows on the IDE drive and leave the pagefile on the windows drive and then programs or files that maybe inclined to use the pagefile on the SATA like games, video editing etc.

also use the SATA to back up the ATA drive, it should be fairly fast transfering files from drive to drive.



 
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