Hard Drive Question

[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

 

[R. McCarty]

Three parameters, Total Space, Spindle Speed and operating mode
( UDMA __) compared between the PATA and SATA drives. But
I do believe in distributed disk loading. Always better to have data
and OS on different drives and in your case using separate controllers
would probably provide an overall benefit.

 

[Anna]

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

Alex:
My own feeling is that by & large assuming you're working with a machine
that has "built-in" SATA capability, I would use the new SATA HDD in
preference to your old PATA HDD as your day-to-day working HDD. As a general
proposition, we have found superior performance using a SATA HDD as compared
with a PATA one. While the difference hasn't been enormous, it has been
significant in our experience. This has been particularly so with the
later-generation SATA-II HDD interface (which I hope HP will provide you
with), and as previously mentioned, the system contained built-in SATA
capability, i.e., supported internally by the motherboard without the need
of an auxiliary SATA controller.

You might want to consider "cloning" the contents of your PATA HDD using a
disk imaging program, e.g., Acronis True Image, and then using that program
as a comprehensive routine backup & restore program with your PATA HDD which
would be installed either as an internal or external drive.

Or you may be able to use the disk copying program usually available from
the manufacturer of your new HDD for a one-time disk cloning operation. In
most cases these programs are not really designed for routine disk cloning
although it is possible to use them as such.
Anna