hard drive configuration

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Paul H

i'm thinking of adding a SATA to my setup of 2xATA/133 drives of 40
and 80

i guess I want to have the SATA as the boot as it should be the faster
of the lot - but i'm not too sure of the background of SATA

is it true you cant view the contents unless you use some special
driver or something? so if you use a recovery disk or something like
Ghost, you couldn't see the drive?

Just wondering if I should dump the 40 for a 120 or just get a 80 SATA
drive in addition.

I'm using an Asus A7N8X deluxe 1.04 to drive it all

thanks for any help
 
Paul H said:
i'm thinking of adding a SATA to my setup of 2xATA/133 drives of 40
and 80

i guess I want to have the SATA as the boot as it should be the faster
of the lot - but i'm not too sure of the background of SATA

is it true you cant view the contents unless you use some special
driver or something? so if you use a recovery disk or something like
Ghost, you couldn't see the drive?

Just wondering if I should dump the 40 for a 120 or just get a 80 SATA
drive in addition.

I'm using an Asus A7N8X deluxe 1.04 to drive it all

thanks for any help
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Once you have set up the drive and the 3112 for one drive and enable SATA in
the BIOS the drive is viewed like any other drive.

Unless you are getting get a 10,000RPM drive you won't notice much speed
improvement and then you would be startled.

A beautiful board like yours needs a pair of WD Raptors and RAID 0.
Here you will be surprised. Real world experience is that over 40% of the
drive the read speed is about 100mBs and over 60% of the drive the read
speed is over 90mBs. Even in the slowest inside cylinder you are still going
twice the speed of a single drive in the same location.
This data was taken with a 1024kB data block.

JPS
 
A beautiful board like yours needs a pair of WD Raptors and RAID 0.
Here you will be surprised. Real world experience is that over 40% of the
drive the read speed is about 100mBs and over 60% of the drive the read
speed is over 90mBs. Even in the slowest inside cylinder you are still going
twice the speed of a single drive in the same location.
This data was taken with a 1024kB data block.
Click to expand...

And at £100 for one 30GB Sata Raptor it's really not that cost effective is
it?
 
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