hard drive query

[boo]

why do people need a faster but relativley small hard drive
e.g. 10k raptor but only 74Gb etc.
also, i have 2 ide connectors both used and 2 SATA connectors. i have one 250Gb HDD on one ide and i want to add a SATA HDD on. would i have any problems with this?
thanx for any help in advance
BOO#
also, whats DVD RAM?

[linuxlover]

people will buy just about anything...
besides, thos are mainly for servers that need fast drives for the frequenty accessed data with the less used data on huge sata drives.
and you probably won't have any trouble as long as you have a sata port/card.

[boo]

so the slave/master thing is only for my ide ports?

[boo]

somethign else, i have an 80Gb HDD from a one touch external whcih became corrupted to i removed the hard drive. is there any way that i can reformat the HDD so that i can add it?

[linuxlover]

yes, maybe.
the slave/master is only for ide, but my(yours i dunno?) bios will read the sata drive as a completely different set of drives. so mine will probably work just fine, yours I don't know. I've never done that and I really don,t know. Try looking at your mobo manual to see if it has anything on that.
It depends how bad your drive is. try reformatting it in windows or linux (whatever you use). If it doesn't work, then your drive is probably toast.

[boo]

when i put the hard drive in, it says the drive is corrupted but thanx for ur help anyway.
boo!

[patio]

when i put the hard drive in, it says the drive is corrupted but thanx for ur help anyway.
boo!

Run the drive utilities from the drive Manuf. site to determine if that drive can be trusted with any data...

[boo]

i realsied that my problem was that i hadnt set the jumper to 'slave'. i worked out how to do this and connected it. i reformatted and it works fine now!
thank so much for ur help in the matter
boooooooo