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ATA Drive on SATA board and more...
Couple quick questions I thought some of you hardware gurus could help me out with.
1. My motherboard has one IDE header, could I boot from an ATA drive (12GB)? It would be on the same cable as the DVD or is this a bad idea? Currently it boots from a 80GB SATA drive, 30GB partition. 2. Doe all drives have a MBR? I had one of my storage drives crash and before it completely failed I was getting an error that the MBR was toast.
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Your 12Gb drive will be 1999 vintage - 7 or 8 years old and nearing (if not past) the end of its useful life. It will also be A LOT slower than a modern drive. Both considerations are important for a system drive. You should have no problem finding a 160Gb SATA drive for $50.00 in the US. Tiger Direct will sell you a 250Gb drive for $59.95 after rebate. If your system is new enough to support SATA drives, you aren't doing yourself any favors by trying to recycle the old 12Gb clunker!
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On the 12gb thing, I was just looking at ways of peicing together another client with leftover parts. I might try it, I didn't think about the age of the drive, but I have another 30GB ATA that had about 9 months of use. Thanks for the info.
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