HD Upgrade Considerations?

[dpaige]

I looking to upgrade an 80GB IDE (7200rpm) Western Digital HD. I am looking at a 160GB Serial ATA drive (7200rpm) for Seagate. Would I get any performence problems having my OS on the 80GB IDE and the data storage on te 160Gb or vice versa? I am better office going all Serial ATA?

 

[folken]

I doubt there would be any performance improvement at all. That 80gb is probably a special edition right? That is a fast drive, keep it as your os disk.

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[Crashman]

Nope, no performance problems.

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[Robc1880]

I'm actually doing the same upgrade as you. Listen to Crash and Folken, they know what they're talking about.

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