quick question IDE v SATA

[fanger]

So I've ordered the Asus M2N-SLI and the AMD X2 4200.
The mobo has 1 IDE slot and 8 SATA slots.
My current version of XP is on an IDE as is all my data on a second IDE.
If I stick to the IDE's (both drives on the same single) will I be majorly bottlenecking the board/ cpu's performance?
Shold I upgrade staright to SATA?
(quite skint at present)

 

[fanger]

OMG of course. I'd forgotten about the DVD R.
Well, there's no choice then is ther.
What would you do?
OS on 1 SATA
OS on 2 SATA RAID?
I'm really not up on this RAID stuff.
Any opinions for best config greatly appreciated.

 

[fanger]

Yeah, I'll bite the bullet and buy a new SATA for the OS.
Thanks for the info.

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