Hard Drive Advice

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Skinzfan151

I have an HP Pavillion desktop in which the hard drive has crashed. The
drive that came with the system is a SATA drive. I have restored my
files and reloaded the OS using an IDE drive that i had lying around.
it took quite a bit of time reloading all of the specialized HP drivers
and getting the system back to normal. HP is sending me a replacement
SATA drive.

My question for all of you is this.....

Is there any reason i Shouldnt use this IDE as my primary and just use
the replacement drive as a secondary, mainly for storage? I mean, i
know it can be done, i just want to know if my performance will suffer
or if it is defeating the purpose of having the SATA capability

Any help would be appreciated,

Alex
 
If your replacement drive is a SATA I drive, then the difference in
performance between the two drives most likely will not be noticeable.
However if your PC uses a SATA II drive then you should go back to using
SATA as SATA II drives are considerably faster than IDE drives.

Also if your PC is still covered by a support contract then using an IDE
drive as your main drive may invalidate your support as you will be using a
non-standard configuration as far as HP is concerned.

JS
 
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