Switching From IDE to SATA

[bombhands]

Hello all,

I am looking for some advice on what to do here. I just bought 2x250GB SATAII HDDs and am ready to install them, but here is the thing. I have an ol' 80GB HDD that has all my data on it that I still want to use in the system. My question is can you run IDE and SATA at the same time?(i.e. IDE for OS/Driver files and SATA for data). If not could someone give me information on how to transfer my OS to the SATA drives. I was also wondering if it would be better
to put these drives in RAID (Which RAID?), or have them as seperate drives.

Thank you in advance!.

 

[chookman]

You can run both at the same time not a problem.

As for RAID... the only ones available to you are 0 and 1, 0 is stripped and will give you 500gb of space at a faster access speed, however, one drive fails you loose everything. RAID 1 will be slightly slower than a single drive as it will write the same data to each drive if one drive fails all data is still contained on the 2nd drive.