Best options to live with IDE and SATA drives

[Wizzard]

I have a Maxtor 250gb IDE drive and have bought a SATA II 300gb drive.
With Asus A8V, I can only use the later as SATA I.

I need the drives to do video editing. Am I better off using the SATA
as my XP Pro drive? Currently OS is on the IDE drive.

 

[Chris Hill]

I have a Maxtor 250gb IDE drive and have bought a SATA II 300gb drive.
With Asus A8V, I can only use the later as SATA I.

Doesn't matter; the drive isn't likely fast enough to keep up with
sata1 unless it is a 10,000 rpm drive. I'd make it the system drive;
might as well have the newest one there.

 

[Jim Hollis]

I have a Maxtor 250gb IDE drive and have bought a SATA II 300gb drive.
With Asus A8V, I can only use the later as SATA I.

I need the drives to do video editing. Am I better off using the SATA
as my XP Pro drive? Currently OS is on the IDE drive.

No leave it the way it is.

You want your video editing application to be on your xp drive and the
footage on the sata drive. Also make the sata drive the temporary store for
the NLE eding software!

This is your fastest and most reliable setup.

 

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

No leave it the way it is.

You want your video editing application to be on your xp drive and the
footage on the sata drive. Also make the sata drive the temporary store for
the NLE eding software!

I'd normally want the data and the temp workspace to be on different
drives. Read from one, write to the other is much faster like that.

Cheers - Jaimie