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Need Opinions On HDD's Transfer Speed...
This morning I have been comparing transfer rates between two of my hard drives because I presently have a SATA/500g and a IDE/150g. I have tons of files that I want to put on the 500(for safe keeping). Right now I use the 500 for win7 and two other hdd's for storage only. I want to change my system and use the 150/ide for the os&apps, and the 500 sata for just storage. I did a comparison this morning and transfered a 6gig file at the same time to each of those drives and it came up as showing(on average) 2-3 seconds slower on the ide. I also did another comp seperately on the drives and the ide was showing 3-4 seconds(on average) slower than the sata. 95% of the time we(the family) are just webbing,youtube, etc. A few times i'm doing video editing, capturing screen video, uploading to youtube. So given those numbers and what we do on the puter, would I be making a dumb move by using my ide over the sata for my os and the sata for just storage?
Many Thanks:
Don