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SuicideBroccoli

What's faster/better, a partitioned SATA HDD (7200rpm 64mb cache) used for OS and data (games and recording) or an IDE HDD for OS and the SATA for data?

Edit: right now I have 2 HDDs, a 200GB IDE, and a 120GB IDE. Soon I'll get a 1TB SATA HDD (Finally!)

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1337Ox

NEVER record on system disk!

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DemiGoth

+1

If you have an old IDE HDD of over 300Gb, use that one for recording. Did that myself with an old IDE HDD and it worked perfectly

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M4ci3X

SATA for data, SSD for system?
but seriously: get IDE for data, and save only this data which don't need fast access (eg music, photos, backup of any kind etc), use SATA as much as you can

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SuicideBroccoli

Sadly I don't have money for an SSD.. I also edited the thread with my current HDDs and the one I'll get

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mancoon

Just use the IDE for storing data

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Sq1rr3l

IDE? That have to be some really old HDDs, place them as memento in a showcase :D

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Gwarsbane

Personally this is what I did when I got a 1TB Western Digital Black drive.

I partitioned it into 3.
100gigs for C drive. There is where the OS would be installed and only the OS.
500gigs for D drive. Installed all my programs and games on it.
What ever was left for E drive. I used this for storage and recording video.

SATA will be by far faster then ATA drives.

My suggestion would be to Break it up into 3 drives. 100 gigs for OS. Seems like a lot, but it gives you wiggle room. Figure out what you need or would like for space for your programs and make that the next drive letter. Then what ever is left use that as your storage/recoding drive letter.

Then start saving. Get yourself another drive in the future. Maybe a 4TB Western Digital Green drive just for storage or get a 2TB Western Digital Black drive and use it for recording. (as you can tell I like Western Digital drives, I have not had any issues with them for a long time but generally any drive should due just do your research on it first) BTW the difference between green and black drives is that greens are slower 5400PRM and have a 3 year warranty and black drives are faster 7200RPM and have 5 year warranties.

Personally I would love to get my hands on 3 or 4 of the new 4TB WD Black drives that are out there, and maybe one of those even newer 120gig SSD + 1TB HHD from WD.

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SuicideBroccoli

I'll be getting a WD Blue, cause that's the top of my budget right now...
btw first I thought about partitioning it, 100GB for OS and the rest for data but I realised that might slow down the system even more then if I had my current 120GB IDE drive for the OS

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nonamE2192

Partitioning can actually increase the performance.

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Gwarsbane

I haven't noticed any slow down at all. IDE in general is far slower then SATA and going by the drive you mentioned its a SATA2 so its decently fast data transfer.

Going for 2 partitions is good if you don't need a space for pure storage. Just that recording on the same partition as your programs are on can cause things to be slower though that could be said about doing everything like that on one drive no matter how many partitions there are.

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Sq1rr3l

500gb for programs AND games? Are you serious? D:

btw how much do you get from Western Digital for the advertising? :P

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Gwarsbane

I don't get anything from advertising them, I'm just saying my personal experience and what items I would actually like.

And while now 500gb seems small for both games and programs, you work with what you have. When I did that, I didn't have a TB worth of games alone that I could have installed.

I maybe had 100 to 200 gigs worth and maybe 100 gigs worth of programs.

If I had the money right now, I would get a 4TB drive for my games, a 4 TB drive for my programs, a 4TB drives for recording (1920x1200 raw video takes up a lot of room) and keep the 2 TB drive I have now for OS and storage. And with that amount of space I would not need new drives for a long time, like 6 months or so. ;)

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uremytoy

ide is old port, so its clear that newer sata will be faster :> ide is also called ATA

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