Well, the gods are smiling...A minor emergency in my office caused me to have to replace my old 3.1Gig HDD in my office machine. To 'solve' the immediate problem of an impending HD failure, I gallantly saved the day by rushing home and breaking out a Quantum bigfoot that was 99% new...ghosted my old drive, and am running good again.
Of course, the Company must now reimburse me, and I flashed the Invoice on the Bigfoot at
$160.00 (bought last year and used for 1 mo).
Wellllll, you know what that kind of money will buy today in Hard drives, so I have a real problem. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
I do a considerable amount of (Very Amateur) video editing, so my question is, keep my primary HDD and use my spiffy new 13 gig ultra ATA 7200 rpm for video storage and playback? Or install this new whizbang as the boot drive?
Current cabling is as follows: Boot Drive=onboard IDE 1, DVD Rom=onboard IDE 2, 12 gig UDMA33 secondary HDD=Promise IDE 1, CDRW=Promise IDE 2. All are Master/No Slave
The only reason I have had the Promise is to settle some conflicts between the DVD, Boot Drive, and CDRW, who can't seem to get along with each other unless they've got their own Channel as Master/No Slave. (thanks in part to the ZORAN/Matrox DVD Daughter card I use.)
But NOW, I get to hook up a real ATA66.![](http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/smile.gif)
And please, no arguments about SCSI--I know, I know (really)--Just can't afford to switch.
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AMD K63 400 Running @ 428
on SOYO SY5EMA
128M 8ns PC100 SDRAM
Marvel G-200 TV
w/DVD HW Card
DVD, CDRW (Both IDE)
Pri Hdd WD 4.1G UDMA33
Sec Hdd WD 12.1G UDMA33
Promise Ultra 66 HDD Controller
Win 98--running 98 Lite
(A GREAT program)
Of course, the Company must now reimburse me, and I flashed the Invoice on the Bigfoot at
$160.00 (bought last year and used for 1 mo).
Wellllll, you know what that kind of money will buy today in Hard drives, so I have a real problem. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
![](http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/smile.gif)
![](http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/smile.gif)
![](http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/smile.gif)
![](http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/smile.gif)
![](http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/smile.gif)
![](http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/smile.gif)
I do a considerable amount of (Very Amateur) video editing, so my question is, keep my primary HDD and use my spiffy new 13 gig ultra ATA 7200 rpm for video storage and playback? Or install this new whizbang as the boot drive?
Current cabling is as follows: Boot Drive=onboard IDE 1, DVD Rom=onboard IDE 2, 12 gig UDMA33 secondary HDD=Promise IDE 1, CDRW=Promise IDE 2. All are Master/No Slave
The only reason I have had the Promise is to settle some conflicts between the DVD, Boot Drive, and CDRW, who can't seem to get along with each other unless they've got their own Channel as Master/No Slave. (thanks in part to the ZORAN/Matrox DVD Daughter card I use.)
But NOW, I get to hook up a real ATA66.
![](http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/smile.gif)
And please, no arguments about SCSI--I know, I know (really)--Just can't afford to switch.
------------------
AMD K63 400 Running @ 428
on SOYO SY5EMA
128M 8ns PC100 SDRAM
Marvel G-200 TV
w/DVD HW Card
DVD, CDRW (Both IDE)
Pri Hdd WD 4.1G UDMA33
Sec Hdd WD 12.1G UDMA33
Promise Ultra 66 HDD Controller
Win 98--running 98 Lite
(A GREAT program)
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