I am thinking about getting another HD for my desktop. I have been looking at 3 gb/s SATA drives and have a couple of questions.
1) My motherboard only supports SATA 150... so if I got a 3gb/s SATA drive it would work with my motherboard but would only run at 150 mb/s? Is this correct? Or do I have to get a SATA 150 drive (which oddly, are more expensive than 3 gb/s drives)?
2) I have been thinking about putting XP on both drives and choosing which one to boot from when I start my system up. Basically what I want to do is have two independant systems with different settings, programs, etc. How would I make it so that when I boot from say HD 1, I don't see the 2nd HD at all (or visa versa)? I don't want any communication between the two, I don't want to be able to access HD 2 when I have booted from HD 1 (or the other way around), I don't want Windows to even know that the other drive exists when I have booted from the other drive. I basically want to make them as separate as possible.... as much like two completely independant computers as possible. I am imagining that I would have to set this up in Windows? Any ideas?
Any input would be appreciated.
1) My motherboard only supports SATA 150... so if I got a 3gb/s SATA drive it would work with my motherboard but would only run at 150 mb/s? Is this correct? Or do I have to get a SATA 150 drive (which oddly, are more expensive than 3 gb/s drives)?
2) I have been thinking about putting XP on both drives and choosing which one to boot from when I start my system up. Basically what I want to do is have two independant systems with different settings, programs, etc. How would I make it so that when I boot from say HD 1, I don't see the 2nd HD at all (or visa versa)? I don't want any communication between the two, I don't want to be able to access HD 2 when I have booted from HD 1 (or the other way around), I don't want Windows to even know that the other drive exists when I have booted from the other drive. I basically want to make them as separate as possible.... as much like two completely independant computers as possible. I am imagining that I would have to set this up in Windows? Any ideas?
Any input would be appreciated.