Switching From IDE to SATA

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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!.

Reply to bombhands

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.

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