SATA and ATA-100

[xephalon]

Just a quick question... If I got an SATA drive and an ATA-100 drive, in which should I use to store my operating system, the swapfile or temp drive for graphics software, program files, or large media files? Your input would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Glenn

 

[Cheetah8799]

Depends all on if there is a real difference in speed in your system between the SATA and IDE drives. You could test this with a benchmark tool like HDTach or something.

Anyway, for me, I have a RAID 0 stripe with 2 IDE drives. I use it for my main OS, swap, prog files, etc. I have a secondary 120g drive for storage of data I don't use a lot.

In your setup, the SATA "should" be faster, so use that for the OS, swap, prog files, etc. All your stuff that gets accessed a lot. Then use the slower drive for data storage. Unless if you are doing some major media work, dvd, images, etc. In that case you'd want your data on a fast drive so that you can access the files faster when you need to.

 

[Navid]

You should use SATA for OS and programs and the temp drive for the graphics software.

Put your main pagefile (1-4GB) on the first partition on the other hard drive. Keep a small pagefile (10MB) on the OS partition.
Put your backup files and files that you do not use all the time on the second hard drive also (second partition).
http://support.microsoft.com/d...x?scid=kb;en-us;314482

 

[unlord213]

Does putting the main pagefile on the second harddrive hold if the second harddrive is signifigantly slower? I am going to be getting a Western Digital Raptor soon I think, so the old drive will be signifigantly slower, which I use to hold the large data i don't use much.

 

[Navid]

You can run a test and find out.

Set up your sustem one way and experiment running applications that you will be running and measure the time it takes to execute an application that takes a few minutes to run.

Then, set up your system the other way and measure again.

Then, you can decide without a doubt.
The point is that many things affect the outcome. Only you can decide what is best for you.