hard drive dilemma

[steveo]

lol ok not sure if i have spent dilemma right so sorry, i have an asus a8n32 mobo with 4 of the ports taken by my 2 36gb raptors and 2 200gb maxtor drives, am just wondering if it would be worth it to get a sata2 drive for the spare port thats left for games coz with me have my 2 raptors with my programs and some games on i have to uninstall games to install new ones ( very annoying i can tell u) would i get good speeds if i used a sata2 drive for my games or would it be slow loading them up cheers for the help

 

[spb251272]

If you get something like the new Seagate 10 series, then it won't be that much slower than the raptors.

 

[squiffy]

lol ok not sure if i have spent dilemma right so sorry, i have an asus a8n32 mobo with 4 of the ports taken by my 2 36gb raptors and 2 200gb maxtor drives, am just wondering if it would be worth it to get a sata2 drive for the spare port thats left for games coz with me have my 2 raptors with my programs and some games on i have to uninstall games to install new ones ( very annoying i can tell u) would i get good speeds if i used a sata2 drive for my games or would it be slow loading them up cheers for the help

What exactly is your dilmema? You need more hard drives, so use whatever interface you have available, in your case the SATA ports. Why should it be slower? If you run out of PATA ports you could buy a PATA PCI IDE controller.