Boot off SATA or IDE? Does it matter?

01-06-2007, 09:13 PM

I am currently booting off an IDE hard drive, and I have 4 other SATA
drives on my K9N Neo MB.

Is it worth sacrificing one of the SATA drives as a bootable drive?
Would it make much difference? I will then loose some of my RAID
options.

Or should I leave it all as it is, booting of IDE and using RAID on the
4 SATAs.

Cheers

01-07-2007, 01:42 AM

hissing_sid wrote:
> I am currently booting off an IDE hard drive, and I have 4 other SATA
> drives on my K9N Neo MB.
>
> Is it worth sacrificing one of the SATA drives as a bootable drive?
> Would it make much difference? I will then loose some of my RAID
> options.
>
> Or should I leave it all as it is, booting of IDE and using RAID on the
> 4 SATAs.
>
> Cheers
>

I'd leave it alone.If you wanted to squeeze a little more you could move
your windows cache to the RAID.

- Grun

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