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This question is a bit different than LoneWolf's...

Got a new WD 120 gig SE drive today. About to install and rebuild, but would like to hear other views before proceeding.

The other drive I'll be using is an IBM 60GXP 40 gig. What I'm thinking is to make the 60GXP the master, partition it into three drives, with Win98SE on the primary partition (3 gigs), XP on the secondary (5 gigs) and the third partition (32 gigs) for apps/games installed.

Then the 120SE would be the slave, as a single partition, mainly for video capture and such.

Both drives will be on the same cable.

The thing I'm wondering...would it be better to use the 120SE as the master, and partition 8 gigs away from that for the operating systems? That would leave me with 112 gigs free for video capture/editing, and I would install apps/games to the IBM drive (single partition).

I'm thinking it might be better to have that monster cache for the operating systems, but have no idea if it would make a performance difference.

Thoughts? Other ideas? Thx.

System:
Asus P4B533, 1.6a at 2.24, 512 megs of PC2700 (Samsung on generic PCB), Compro GF3 Personal Cinema Ti200, Voodoo5 5500 PCI, UltraPlex TSi 40 (SCSI), HP 9200i CD-RW (SCSI), Adaptec 2940UW card, Sony 5x DVD (IDE), Enermax 350W, Inwin Q500 tower, Intel Pro/100B NIC, CMI8738 onboard audio, etc. Also, I'm thinking about dropping in my old Hollywood+ as well (saw some glitches while watching a movie the other day).

go out and get you an ata 100 card. no ide drive should be a slave.

Well assuming both drives are the same speedwise, I'd say just dedicate the 120gb as the one for video editing and what have you. And leave the 40gb as the OS/Programs/etc. drive. But if the 120gb is the faster of the two I'd say run that with the OS as if u do that, the OS should run a bit faster. Not really that it would be noticeable, but in theory. But organization wise, it would look more organized with all video stuff on the 120gb, and everything else on your other one. Its really not gonna matter too much for performance. Might be easier to maintain seperating video from other stuff. Who knows. I'm kinda drunk right now so I'm gonna go now.... :chug :

yes make the 120 gig SE the OS drive... if ya don't thats not too bright... I split mine 40/80 and use the 80 for putting the vob files on when i'm encoding...