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Well, there are 2 consideratins I see here.
First of all...an IBM deathstar....wow, its rare to see anyone with on eof those things still runnin! lol. Cuz they had tons of probs with them. So the first thing that pops into my head, is maybe I wouldnt want anything critical on that drive at all, lol. Just something to think about.
The second thing is that I probably would want to run the OS off of the 8m cache drive for the slight speed increase. I mean, what good is it to have a faster drive if it is just used for deep storage?
Unless....and maybe someone else can help me out here. If you are playing lots of games, and the games have lots of data that needs to be moved back and forth..in that case it might be better to have the OS on one drive and the game data on another drive..one different ide controllers also..so that they both can be accessed at the same time without fighting each other.
If you were to use the copying software that came with the drive to copy the 40g over to the 160g, I imagine it would just keep the 3 partitions the same way but resize them all proportionally...so you'd probably end up with a 32,40, and 80g partition. You could always use partition magic to resize them...say for instance if you didnt want to put 32g for the OS.
You could also think about using the 40g for backup...like we all know we should be doing, but we dont! lol.
As far as the controller card....I dont think youd NEED it, unless the motherboard wont detect the full 160g size of the new drive....you wont need it for any sped increase cuz the board is already ATA100. You might want to use it just to give you more drive options....say to have the 160g on the first motherboard IDE channel by itself...then your cd burner on the second by itself...and then maybe the 40g and a dvd drive on the pci controller.....I guess there are lots of options that way...it just depends on what you are going to do with the comp...what are the priorities....if you want both hard drives to be actively used then maybe you want them both to have their own IDE controller..for max speed....if you are going to burn LOTS of cds..or you have a dvd burner..maybe you want IT on ITS own IDE controller.
JP
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