Hello everyone.
I'm saving money for a new harddisk at the moment, I'm planning to replace one of my IDE harddisks with a SATA drive.
At the moment I have these harddisks:
- Maxtor 30GB (pretty old, gonna replace this one)
- Maxtor 120GB (should be fine)
So, I was planning on getting a Maxtor or Western Digital 200GB SATA 300 hard disk. I was wondering about some stuff though...
What setup would be best? Since I'm keeping my 120GB IDE drive, well, I think I should use that one mainly for storage, don't you think? It's a slower drive after all, and the SATA drive should be fast and big enough to store both Windows and games. Hmm.. then it would be best to put the page file on that drive too, I guess. Maybe it's better to make a separate partition on that SATA drive.
Oh, and does the Windows XP setup support SATA drives? Would be a bummer if it wouldn't be able to detect it.
Yeah, and lastly, what is better, Maxtor or Western Digital?
Thanks in advance!
I'm saving money for a new harddisk at the moment, I'm planning to replace one of my IDE harddisks with a SATA drive.
At the moment I have these harddisks:
- Maxtor 30GB (pretty old, gonna replace this one)
- Maxtor 120GB (should be fine)
So, I was planning on getting a Maxtor or Western Digital 200GB SATA 300 hard disk. I was wondering about some stuff though...
What setup would be best? Since I'm keeping my 120GB IDE drive, well, I think I should use that one mainly for storage, don't you think? It's a slower drive after all, and the SATA drive should be fast and big enough to store both Windows and games. Hmm.. then it would be best to put the page file on that drive too, I guess. Maybe it's better to make a separate partition on that SATA drive.
Oh, and does the Windows XP setup support SATA drives? Would be a bummer if it wouldn't be able to detect it.
Yeah, and lastly, what is better, Maxtor or Western Digital?
Thanks in advance!