Mixing IDE and SATA Hardrives??

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dan_plus_o

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Hello I am building a computer soon and I was wondering if it will be alright to mix IDE and SATA Harddrives. I am sure it will work but will performance lack?

Here is what I am thinming:
- One 10GB IDE Hard Drive (OS)
- One 500GB SATA Hard Drive (Normal use and Storage)
- One (possibly another 500GB) SATA Hard Drive (For my Audio recording projects)

I have read that SATA is better then IDE so should I get a SATA Hard Drive for the OS?? It is just that I have a spare 10GB IDE hard drive (Xbox Hard drive) kicking around that I thought I could use but if it decreases performance I might as well buy a new 10GB SATA HardDrive for the OS..

One more question.. If I install the OS on the 10GB Hard Drive does that mean that I have to install all the programs and games on the same Hard Drive as the OS?? Or could I install games on the 500GB hard drive and still be able to run them with the OS on the 10GB Hard Drive?
 
Just install your OS on your single 500 SATA drive, dont bother with that 10gig thing. If anything it will HURT performance, this way everything is in one nice place too.
 
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if I can get by with 10GB (total when my HD was broken), you can get by with 500GB ;)

I download lots of spyware and stuff :D
 
Thanks for the replies..

First off I am going to be installing Windows XP Professional.

Second, I was told that having your OS on a separate Hard drive is better because you can Defrag the OS faster then having to defrag a 500GB hard drive all the time. And if my OS get infected with viruses and spyware I will still have all the other stuff on the 500GB Hard drive.

I am a guitar player and my main reason to get my new computer is for recording audio and making tunes. So I was wanting to get a 500GB for normal use, then a 250+GB for Storing my finished songs, then the smaller HDD for the OS. I can just toss my finished songs on the other hard drive and then I will be able to defrag the OS HDD and the Normal use HDD without having to defrag everything else on the storage HDD.

Here is a site I was reading up on about building a computer for audio recording.
http://www.build-a-recording-studio.com/hard-drives.html

He says that it is better to get more then 1 HDD then to partition a single HDD into several partitions.
 
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