EXCellR8
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I'm trying to decide what to do around the launch of Windows 7... w/ hardware and whatnot. I know this system will run the 64-bit version just fine but i was thinking about a small upgrade... specifically with the hard drives. I could continue to use my old IDE drives and install Win7 on my primary... probably dual boot it with XP or I could get a small SATA drive and install it on that. I was thinking my data transfer rate would be faster that way for the new OS.
I have a 500GB SATA drive that I'm using now for games, and they all run great... so I could use that for my personal stuff and transfer the games to a 1TB drive if I wanted (I have room for 3 HDDs with this case). Of course I could always wait until my next system overhaul, looking at Q2 or Q3 of next year, and worry about the drives then... but I would need to reinstall Win7 or make a disk image if I choose to keep using the IDE drives come October. Not sure what to do... but I'm really eager to get rid of those annoying ribbon cables.
I have a 500GB SATA drive that I'm using now for games, and they all run great... so I could use that for my personal stuff and transfer the games to a 1TB drive if I wanted (I have room for 3 HDDs with this case). Of course I could always wait until my next system overhaul, looking at Q2 or Q3 of next year, and worry about the drives then... but I would need to reinstall Win7 or make a disk image if I choose to keep using the IDE drives come October. Not sure what to do... but I'm really eager to get rid of those annoying ribbon cables.