IDE and SATA

[dlandis72]

Tomorrow, I am going to install a new SATA and a formatted IDE drive. I read somewhere that when I am using a SATA drive, i don't need to use jumpers to set master and slave drives. Is this true? I want the SATA drive to contain Windows XP and all of my games while the IDE drive will just contain documents and stuff. Do I need to know anything before installing the drives tomorrow?

 

[giant384]

nope there only jumpers on ide but be sure to set the ide drive to master then when you boot up your computer make sure you put the sata as first boot priority in the bios

 

[dlandis72]

thanks

 

[Play4Fun]

I think when you have an IDE drive and a SATA drive working together then the SATA drive will work as fast as the IDE drive.. so you'd better get another SATA drive.. but I'm not that sure.. correct me if I'm wrong

 

[giant384]

lol your thinking of ram ^^^ not a hardrive

 

[Play4Fun]

NO, I meant HDD.. I remember reading this somewhere.. :\

 

[Dr. Freeman]

I think when you have an IDE drive and a SATA drive working together then the SATA drive will work as fast as the IDE drive.. so you'd better get another SATA drive.. but I'm not that sure.. correct me if I'm wrong

makes sense to me.
the SATA needs to slow down to the IDE's speeds so there aren't any problems when the two drives are working together.

 

[Asus]

Nah they will run at their own speeds. Only if you got a IDE adapter and put the SATA drive on the IDE port would it slow down to ATA100/133.

The reason memory slows down is because it has 1 memory controller that does it all. SATA has it's own chip it talks to and so does parallel.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

and the hardware genius has spoken!

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