Upgrading Harddrive

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I currently have an 5400RPM 80GB Western Digital HDD which I've been using for a few years and I need more space. I was wondering if I keep this HDD in my system and purchase a new 7200RPM SATA, if the new drive would have a decrease in performance because I also have the older IDE drive. I was thinking windows and games on the new harddrive, and MP3s, utils, and other non-intensive things on the older drive. Will I still get the full benefit of SATA when I'm not reading data from the 5400?

Also, if I have a program running from the IDE drive using minimal resources in the background, will I get a performance decrease when I'm playing a game off the new drive, merely because it's reading and/or writing to/from both drives simultaneously?
 
I once have my system setup just like that a primary SATA Hard Drive and slave my IDE (7200rpm) both btw. In my case i notice some decrease and problems sometimes BUT thats in my case, anyway what i did was i buy a external enclosure and make the ide hard drive external via USB and its works great but thats just me.

I hope this help you and clear you out some of you doubts ;)

BTW which Hard Drive are you considering into buying??

Check this out:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065

This one looks good but the only downside is that the cache is only 8mb i would recommend a 16mb cache.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144701

This one i like it in my opinion, it have the 16mb cache .
 
That hardrive is more than fine in fact if i'm correct i have that same HD
if you really want to buy it go for it. BTW SATA II is backward compatible even if you buy a HD SATA II you can use it in your mobo that support only SATA I, just to let you know ;)
 
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