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Thread ID: 45539	2004-05-25 06:05:00	SATA and ATA Compatible together ?	Woof (2402)	Press F1

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239206	2004-05-25 06:05:00	Just a quick "GENERAL" question ... If I installed an ATA HDD as a secondary hdd when the primary hdd is Sata might there be any compatiblity issues..... Maybe it varies between Motherboards. If so I was contemplating an MSI GM2 (?) series	Woof (2402)
239207	2004-05-25 06:12:00	Well, I have the both types on a Gigabyte board, and there are no issues there. My OS drive is IDE, and SATA as data, etc... no probs at all. Lo.	Lohsing (219)
239208	2004-05-25 06:32:00	Yeah there should be no problems. I reccommend OS on ATA, and data on SATA. this way when the controllers kill each other (like mine did) you dont have to reinstall.	Growly (6)
239209	2004-05-25 13:06:00	I have an A7N8X Deluxe Mothorboard + one backup drive wich is ATA and my primary drive which is SATA. Windows XP Pro boots from my SATA drive just fine so you can do it that way as well. The reason I have set it this way is becasue my SATA HDD is much faster... I have all my Data on a seperate paprtition so if anything bad happenes all the data is there plus if I have to reinstall XP for any reason it takes only around 10-15mins as I have an image (Norton Ghost) of my operating systems partition. Hope this helps	joeflies256 (387)
239210	2004-05-25 20:21:00	yeah i would recormend putting your os on the sata drive as this is much faster, you wont notice difference with data at speed so stick this on your ata drive	Budda (2736)
239211	2004-05-25 21:51:00	Cool Bananas - thanks, people - all very reassuring Just the good news I wanted to hear Also made note of the reasoning for OS on SATA, thanks	Woof (2402)
239212	2004-05-26 00:21:00	>putting your os on the sata drive as this is much faster not neccarly so. test the drives first. just because the drive is sata dosn't mean its faster.	tweak'e (174)
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