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Simon Williams wrote: >You only need SATA if you want to hotswap it. Otherwise IDE is fine. And >you will get no speed benefit whatsoever from SATA if you have to go >through a PCI controller. PCI is slow. Possibly slower than IDE. > > On a P3-450, I dare say any drive controller isn't going to be as fast with the data transfer as newer drives. SATA would be marginally faster than 2 IDE drives on the same cable. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html