Sirrush

one of my old 80gb HDD for my OS and my new 500gb for everything else, or should I just use my 500gb and make a separate partition for my OS?

Also, would it slow me down at all if I used a PATA HDD as my OS drive, or should I take apart my other computer and steal that HDD. (Both are 80gb, 7200 rpm drives).

Thanks in advance for the feedback.

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theCanadian

As it stands right now, it doesn't really matter. But if I was you, I'd try to stay SATA in case you want to go RAID in the future. SATA RAID is probably a little easier to manage, just from a cable standpoint. Just a thought.

So to answer your question. PATA shouldn't slow you down for a single drive.

Also, the newer the drive the better. Unless it's a Hitachi or a Samsung or something like that.

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ComGuards

80GB 7200RPM IDE Drive? In my experience - those are slow, comparatively. I have 8 WD800JB IDE HDDs that are collecting dust because they're too old and slow to run in single drive. I get a slight performance increase when I run them in RAID-0, but 8 drives in RAID-0, especially 8 old IDE drives in RAID-0, is too slow.

I would probably go with the 500GB drive as your main drive, and then use the 80GB for minor functions. i.e. move your pagefile off of drive C onto the 80GB; use the 80GB as a "temp" drive for downloading or extracting files. i.e. if you have a bunch of RAR or ZIP files that you've downloaded, I'd download them to the 80GB, and then extract to a partition / volume on the 500GB drive. That way, you're reading from one drive and writing to another drive. Even with an old 80GB drive, it's probably faster than reading & writing on the same drive.

Just my two cents.