Using two hard drives w/ diff. combo ata & sata

[snowtime]

I currently have a 120gb ata hard drive that's getting quite full w/ media (i love movies I was thinking about installing another hard drive, maybe a large 400gb sata hard drive -
is this possible to do without disrupting the operating system etc that's on the master drive? If I were to reinstall windows xp on the master drive, could I do format it without it affecting the slave drive with all of my media content?

Also can I use an ata and a sata hard drive simultaneously?



Finally if I were to replace the master hard drive w/ say a very fast 10,000 rpm hard drive like a raptor to run my operating system etc, and used the other larger slower hard drive for mass storage, would I notice speed improvements? I'm not looking to do a raid or anything, just use a fast small hard drive, and a large slower hard drive

Thanks for the tips and comments - always appreciated!

 

[paparazi]

Yes to both questions!
But both questions are contradicting one another.

First can I fit a SATA without disturbing the original ATA with the O/S YES!

Then can you format and reinstall on the ATA without disturbing the new SATA YES! obviously you would have needed to have copied those films across first.

Yes you can use both drives simultaniosly

Lastly even with a single Raptor as your boot drive you will notice performance improvements (not dramatic) but obviously as Raptors have relatively small capacities this solution isn't going to offer you much more storage and you will soon be running out of space again.
Martin


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