Me and a friend are rooming together in college and making a server out of my current desktop, which has only 2 SATA ports and the norm of 2 IDE ports. I want to know what I should use each of the ports for, OS on the IDEor vice versa with storage on IDE and OS on SATA... What doth the people say?
well, personally i would shove the OS on IDE, since you would never be rebooting a server... but then again, if its only SATA I and not SATA II then there's little difference apart from the fact that the drives on SATA will most likely be newer models You could just solve your problem and go buy a PCI 4-port SATA controller card, grab 6 x 250Gb SATA harddrives (v. cheap these days) and there you have it... 1.5Tb of sexy server storage space.... dragon2309
depends... what hard drives are you plugging into it? if you are buying all new hard drives, just get a pci sata controller and get however many sata cards you need. if you have old IDE hard drives kicking around that you are going to use, stick the OS on one of those, and use the sata ports for data drives. whatever you do, don't go out and buy IDE drives.
