Computer help: concerning hard drives

MooseManDan · Feb 20, 2006, 06:47 PM

I'm custom builing my own PC, and I some limited knowlege in some areas I'm hoping you can all help me with. Here are the specs:

Athlon 64 San Diego; 3000+
1GB Kingston DDR 3200/400mhz (2x512)
K8N Neo-Platinum Socket 939
Onboard 7.1 sound
Onboard 10/100/1000 Lan
Cooler Master
ATI Sapphire 512MB x1300 Graphics Card
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NZ Platinum
250GB Western Digital Corsair SATA 3GB

*60GB EIDE 7200RPM Hard Drive

Here's my question: I want to use the SATA as the master drive and the 60GB as storage. I don't want to degrade my perfromance though. Will installing the 60GB drive degrade my performance when it's used primarily as storage media?

niceguyrichy · Feb 20, 2006, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by MooseManDan

Here's my question: I want to use the SATA as the master drive and the 60GB as storage. I don't want to degrade my perfromance though. Will installing the 60GB drive degrade my performance when it's used primarily as storage media?

in a word, no

so long as you treat it purely as a slave drive, windows and everything else will run at whatever performance level as they normally would on the sata drive.

riles9262 · Feb 20, 2006, 08:55 PM

nope, you'll be just fine. I have the same setup, and i have no degredation in performance of my sataii drive.

CDsDontBurn · Feb 20, 2006, 08:59 PM

no performance difference at all like previously stated.

both the SATA and IDE drive will be working independantly of each other as they are both on different hard drive controllers on the MoBo.

Feb 20, 2006, 06:47 PM	#1
MooseManDan DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Colorado Springs Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	Computer help: concerning hard drives I'm custom builing my own PC, and I some limited knowlege in some areas I'm hoping you can all help me with. Here are the specs: Athlon 64 San Diego; 3000+ 1GB Kingston DDR 3200/400mhz (2x512) K8N Neo-Platinum Socket 939 Onboard 7.1 sound Onboard 10/100/1000 Lan Cooler Master ATI Sapphire 512MB x1300 Graphics Card Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NZ Platinum 250GB Western Digital Corsair SATA 3GB *60GB EIDE 7200RPM Hard Drive Here's my question: I want to use the SATA as the master drive and the 60GB as storage. I don't want to degrade my perfromance though. Will installing the 60GB drive degrade my performance when it's used primarily as storage media?

Feb 20, 2006, 08:55 PM	#3
riles9262 Driverheaven brewmaster Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,842 Rep Power: 72 System Specs	nope, you'll be just fine. I have the same setup, and i have no degredation in performance of my sataii drive. __________________ A beer a day keeps the doctor away.

Feb 20, 2006, 08:59 PM	#4
CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,779 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	no performance difference at all like previously stated. both the SATA and IDE drive will be working independantly of each other as they are both on different hard drive controllers on the MoBo. __________________ Her First Day \| A year later