Question about hard drive setup...

[BZeto]

Right now I'm running a 40gb Seagate drive with 2mb cache for everything. I bought a 200gb Seagate drive with 8mb cache not too long ago and have yet to install it. I may just throw the 200gb drive in for storage using an IDE to SATA adapter because I have no room on my IDE chain for the new drive unless I ditch the Seagate. I wont have any problems doing that will I?

But my question is, is having that extra 6mb of cache really worth it? Because if I just use the 200gb drive for storage and my swap file I wont really be utilizing that 8mb cache for the OS, games and applications. I'm looking for performance here.

 

[airfoil]

The new Seagate will certainly be faster than the older 40 gig drive. I'd say you use the new drive as the primary after partitioning it, and use the old drive for storage.

 

[BZeto]

I dont know too much about SATA:
If I install the new drive using the SATA adapter that came with my mobo can I make it the primary drive even though my old 40gb drive will be on my Primary IDE channel?

 

[Ioo]

yup

 

[BeTomXXX]

you can always test the drives with HD tach. someone told me on this forum;
And i must say it's a great HD benchmarking tool.