I have a 40gig ide, 80gig ide, and a 200gig Sata. If i install the OS onto the sata, will i get better performance? currently i have the os installed on the 40gig.

Only if the drive is faster (read no)

id move your page file to the sata. you might notice an improvment.

i got both in my puter... tell us if you get the "Blue screen of death" after right clicking your cd rom. The only other thing that i think it could be is virtual DVD drive related software issues...

i got both in my puter... tell us if you get the "Blue screen of death" after right clicking your cd rom. The only other thing that i think it could be is virtual DVD drive related software issues...

You're on your own there. I also have both kind in my computer and havn't had an issue for 4 years.

Chances are the 200GB is faster than the 40GB without SATA even coming into play.

what's with your reply jmr

jmr is right, but if we took a rule of thumb, a 40GB drive is going to tend to be older than a 200, and most likely quicker in general, merely because of technical improvements over time.

Other things to check would be the cache size on both drives, and the DMA mode it's running in - if it's even running in DMA mode. Of course, if it's in PIO mode it's going to be chewing hideous amounts of CPU cycles.
If you don't want to reinstall though, moobys idea is good too.

Not if its a 40gb 10,000 raptor!@#!@# My 72gb raptor is a mad f***ing cainor

basically, you will notice an improvement, but it has nothing to do with the interface. the 40gig will most likely have 2mb of cache, the sata drive will have either 8 or 16mb of cache most likely. Thats where you will find most of the speed difference. Also, does the drive have NCQ? If so, there's another avenue of possible speed increase.

people still use IDE Hard-droves?

yes, because sata is only a very, very small improvement over IDE
My WD 250gb IDE 7200rpm 8mb cache drive rocks very hard, and silently. Quietest HDD on the market i reckon, and certainly was the ducks nuts when i left system building

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I have 9 x sata drives in my system, the only thing I use IDE for these days is CD/DVD and even thats about to change with the imminent demise of my burner

if you want performance gains without buying 10000rpm drives, just raid them up depending on what performance increases you want, you chose different raid levels

Not if its a 40gb 10,000 raptor!@#!@# My 72gb raptor is a mad f***ing cainor

Cept that WD never made a 40GB Raptor. They come as a 36GB though.

surely if you're packing more bits per square inch, then bigger capacity = faster I/O throughput

except it takes longer to seek those bits

So how do i move the page file? cut paste? Lol.

right click my computer, properties, advanced, performance settings, advanced, virtual memory

it depends on the size of the tractor belt obviously, the throughput can only interface with certain types of DDR hardware but that all depends if its running DMD and NCQ 3rd layer protocol caching

hope this helps

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??? Like that

almost, now go to c: and say no paging file on it

Actually, having the paging file spread across multiple disks may actually help, since when accessing data it now has the throughput of two disks rather than a single.