Hard Drive Advice

[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

 

[JS]

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