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I have three drives: 640GB SATA, 320GB SATA and 320GB ATA.
I have three "positions": Master (just OS), Mule (Internal, holds movies, work, documents, etc.) and external (I have an external enclosure, but it can only work with SATA disks)
I want to keep the 640GB SATA as the Mule (internal for storage) because, well, it's really big and I have lots of stuff.
My question is: (preface: )I know SATA disks are faster but (question: ) if all I use my master drive for is to hold the OS (not documents, files, movies, etc.) will I notice a difference between having the master be an ATA vs SATA? My biggest concern is playing games. (If I used ATA disk but installed everything onto the 640GB SATA mule would that work as fast as if I installed them onto master SATA disk? Like.. kept my Program Files folder on the mule? Would that have any drawbacks? Like many default install folders (AppData/WINDOWS etc) being on the master OS drive?)
Also I'd rather not use my 640 as the master with the OS. I screw around with my OS a lot and it isn't uncommon for me to mess things up so bad I have to reinstall, keeping things on a backup 24/7 instead of having to back them up every time is.. nice.
Thank you very much,
-Zack
I have three "positions": Master (just OS), Mule (Internal, holds movies, work, documents, etc.) and external (I have an external enclosure, but it can only work with SATA disks)
I want to keep the 640GB SATA as the Mule (internal for storage) because, well, it's really big and I have lots of stuff.
My question is: (preface: )I know SATA disks are faster but (question: ) if all I use my master drive for is to hold the OS (not documents, files, movies, etc.) will I notice a difference between having the master be an ATA vs SATA? My biggest concern is playing games. (If I used ATA disk but installed everything onto the 640GB SATA mule would that work as fast as if I installed them onto master SATA disk? Like.. kept my Program Files folder on the mule? Would that have any drawbacks? Like many default install folders (AppData/WINDOWS etc) being on the master OS drive?)
Also I'd rather not use my 640 as the master with the OS. I screw around with my OS a lot and it isn't uncommon for me to mess things up so bad I have to reinstall, keeping things on a backup 24/7 instead of having to back them up every time is.. nice.
Thank you very much,
-Zack