alright Tycus welcome to the world of speed 

...nvm.

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almost two months with my great SATA HD and i realy like it(notice that i didn't say that i realy "licke" it.., that would be dangerous   )!

i know the difference is so great

And I have trouble filling up my two 160 GB SATA drives! I wouldn't know what to do with all the storage JAFO has

I dunno...first thing I would do is mirror the hard drives. But yeah, someone heading to the Terabyte mark is my idol at this point.

So what'd you finally do, Tycus? I'm curious. I just came across this today, and my first instinct was to set the master/slave settings in the BIOS and on the HD jumpers. I'm curious to know what your final setup is.

After a year of constant upgrading, I think I've finally come to where I wanna be with hard-drives....well I hope so cos now there's other hardware to consider, and Vista's just around the corner.....

Just got me a 200gig Samsung SATA, with price being the determining factor between it and a 250 gig....the 250 being near a $100 more and hardly worth the extra when I could've got two 160's (IDE or SATA) for just a tad more. The following is my current HD configuration, according to 'Disk Management'......

Seagate 160gig IDE....Master on 0
Western Digital 160gig IDE....Slave on 0
Samsung 200gig SATA......Master on 1
Western Digital 160gig SATA....Slave on 1
Maxtor 180gig SATA.....Slave on 2.

S'pose now I'll have a free Byte or two to store all those lovely skins.....tho with two LiteOn DVD burners and a Samsung CD ROM/burner, I'm wondering if there'll be any room left in the case for anything else.

Just as well I have four case fans running to keep 'em cool, eh!

My very own oppinion is to use the SATA HD as the master driver and install all the programs and drivers in there, and save all stuff in the IDE HD., by doing this, your system will get a good speed...