would I notice any difference in these drives?

[Sweeper]

Current Drive:

Maxtor 13.6GB
Formatted Capacity: 13.6GB
Interface: 40-pin ATA-4
Data Transfer Rates: 66.7MB/s (UDMA)
Average Seek Times: 9ms
Buffer Size: 2MB
Rotational Speed: 7200rpm

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Drive I am looking to replace with:

Formatted Capacity: 20.49GB
Interface: 40-pin ATA-5
Data Transfer Rates: 100MB/s (UDMA)
Average Seek Times: 9ms
Buffer Size: 2MB
Rotational Speed: 7200rpm

Only difference I notice is the extra space and the UDMA. Is there really that much difference in these 2 drives? Would it be worth the time to swap drives, etc. Don't have GHOST availabe and I would do a clean install anyway. Is it worth the time?

Sweeper

[RedFury]

I don't think you are going to notice a difference in the drives per se. If it were me and it was feesable to do, I would use the slightly faster ATA100 drive as my main drive, and the older drive as my back up on the same ATA bus.

Currently I have a 40 gig ATA133 as my main drive and a 15gig ATA100 as my back up/file storage. I won't build another computer any other way, even if I just have a small 3 gig drive as a back up. It gives me a safe place to put things until I burn them onto CD. Even if the main drive dies, I've still got my important data.

[Atomic Rooster]

You should notice a small speed increase going from the ATA66 drive to the ATA100 drive. Not enough to make you go 'WOW", but you will see a performance increase.

[Sweeper]

I was thinking the same thing.... RedFury ... using the 20GB as the main and the 13GB as the slave for storage....

[Dazbo666]

I have a similar setup with two Maxtor drives.. a partitioned 80Gb as my main drive, and a 40Gb drive which has a backup of my important data, as well as being spare storage for files or films etc before I burn on to CD