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At the moment i'm still running an 80gb IDE and a 160gb IDE HDDs. About to order Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM and Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB ST3500630AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM. The 74gb for games etc and the 500gb pretty much for storage.
However, i have a good 200gb of data on my IDEs that i need, but i read in another post that booting 2 SATAs and setting up RAID wipes the drives (I have never set up RAID or SATAs before). I would like to know the best way to get my data across.
The plan at the moment is plug in the 2 SATAs, install Windows on the 74gb and set them up as RAID etc, plug in my 2 IDES as slaves and just drag and drop the required data, but i would like a more experienced opinion.
After transfering the data will probably scrap the IDEs as i most likely don't have enough room in my case and also because newer mobos have only one IDE port and that would be for optical drives so i want to be SATA only.
Also, reading up on it, people on the board seem to have a lot of problems with SATA drives corupting or whatever and having to back them up a lot. I've never had this problem with my IDEs. Is it experienced a lot more with SATA?
However, i have a good 200gb of data on my IDEs that i need, but i read in another post that booting 2 SATAs and setting up RAID wipes the drives (I have never set up RAID or SATAs before). I would like to know the best way to get my data across.
The plan at the moment is plug in the 2 SATAs, install Windows on the 74gb and set them up as RAID etc, plug in my 2 IDES as slaves and just drag and drop the required data, but i would like a more experienced opinion.
After transfering the data will probably scrap the IDEs as i most likely don't have enough room in my case and also because newer mobos have only one IDE port and that would be for optical drives so i want to be SATA only.
Also, reading up on it, people on the board seem to have a lot of problems with SATA drives corupting or whatever and having to back them up a lot. I've never had this problem with my IDEs. Is it experienced a lot more with SATA?
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