Hello there,
I am wondering what the best way to utilize my 3 hard drives are. I have:
One 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
and two (older) 40GB 7200 RPM 2MB cache IDE HDDs.
I have purchased 2 IDE to SATA adapters like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812270236 to allow me to connect the 2 IDE drives to my motherboard via SATA ports since my one IDE port is reserved for my optical drive. If it helps to know what kind of motherboard I have, it's an ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131377
My questions are:
Does anybody have any experience with these sort of adapters? Do they work well?
Is there a better way to set up these HDDs for my use (OS and programs for the 500GB, storage for the 2 40GB's is what I'm planning)?
The 2 40GB drives are being have data on them already (being reused from my old system that went down)- should I offloa/backup that data before I install them in my new build? Gonig from XP to Windows 7.
I am wondering what the best way to utilize my 3 hard drives are. I have:
One 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
and two (older) 40GB 7200 RPM 2MB cache IDE HDDs.
I have purchased 2 IDE to SATA adapters like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812270236 to allow me to connect the 2 IDE drives to my motherboard via SATA ports since my one IDE port is reserved for my optical drive. If it helps to know what kind of motherboard I have, it's an ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131377
My questions are:
Does anybody have any experience with these sort of adapters? Do they work well?
Is there a better way to set up these HDDs for my use (OS and programs for the 500GB, storage for the 2 40GB's is what I'm planning)?
The 2 40GB drives are being have data on them already (being reused from my old system that went down)- should I offloa/backup that data before I install them in my new build? Gonig from XP to Windows 7.