Q: Right, firstly I am currently a 46.1Gb Maxtor HD on my motherboards ATA-66 I think! I have a drive that ISOS I love my backups and porn games. When I unrar files takes a while to transfer to another partition.
I wants to buy a new HD, but Im not sure what to go. I would be connecting it to the same IDE channel as my first HD. I want to 80Gb! Should I swap my old hard disk with a new 7200RPM HD, there would be “no” performance increase over my current 46Gb Maxtor 7200RPM?
Just say I had my drive and wanted sepeate ISOS from one disk to another unrar, unrar it would be much faster than the same drive?
What would say that the best and fastest HD for me! So I use the new HD as a second drive or would it be better if the main HD?
Thanks in advance for your advice
Re:Also anyone know if that Western Digital is available here in the UK, if so how much?
Thanks 
Re:ok, thanks for the advice, One thing i am not sure on though.
Is Copying from 1 HD to the Other quicker than copying information from one partition to another on the same drive? (Both will be on the same channel, i.e. Slave and Master)
Cause i couldnt work it out. If the drive is copying to itself on another area, wouldn't it take longer as its gotta keep moving the heads between read and write? Or would it be faster than if you were copying to another HD where it had to go through the IDE channel and thus causing longer time!
Thanks!
Re:<< Will you see a performance increase? Basically, no. ATA 66 vs ATA 100 means about nothing since drives aren't even able to run at ATA 66. And going from a 7200 RPM drive to another 7200 RPM drive would also mean nothing. The 80Gb may have denser platters, or maybe not I don't know the drive, but even if it did the performance would be negligible.
About the only hope you have of seeing a performance increase with an IDE drive today is the Special Edition Western Digital 120Gb drive with 8MB cache (instead of the 2MB cache of other drives) Says it has a 32% increase in data access time then the drives you are looking at (seek time is the same)
Keep in mind that in real time performance we humans can only really notice performance increases of 30% or better in the real world (not benchmarks), so if this drive does what the reviews suggest it does then you should notice a slight difference if you want to shell out the $250.00-$300.00 for it. >>
Actually, even though the drive doesn't sustain speeds that high, it has been found that the bursts can utilize more than ata-100. And I've read it to be 5% or better to be noticed, but thats just what I've read.
Re:Will you see a performance increase? Basically, no. ATA 66 vs ATA 100 means about nothing since drives aren't even able to run at ATA 66. And going from a 7200 RPM drive to another 7200 RPM drive would also mean nothing. The 80Gb may have denser platters, or maybe not I don't know the drive, but even if it did the performance would be negligible.
About the only hope you have of seeing a performance increase with an IDE drive today is the Special Edition Western Digital 120Gb drive with 8MB cache (instead of the 2MB cache of other drives) Says it has a 32% increase in data access time then the drives you are looking at (seek time is the same)
Keep in mind that in real time performance we humans can only really notice performance increases of 30% or better in the real world (not benchmarks), so if this drive does what the reviews suggest it does then you should notice a slight difference if you want to shell out the $250.00-$300.00 for it.
Re:If you're going to get faster drive, you should use that as your main drive. The slower drive can be used for all your backups. Western Digitals are considered the fastest drives out there, so if you have the cash, you should go that route. Otherwise, Maxtors are pretty good drives, and so are Seagate drives. Hope this helps.
Re:There would be a performance increase. First, it is going to be ata-100 which will be faster in short bursts of data. Second, it will be newer and probably work a little better. There won't be a big difference, though.
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