SATA for system files or storage? read below?

Question

I am A SATA 3Gb/s 400gb capacity hard drive. and several ATA 100 drives. should i use the SATA for the system files(i.e. widows ) or use it as a storage for photos, music, videos etc.

thanks for serious suggestions.

thanks to first 2 answerers. well i have one sata 400gb, and three ata 180gb, 250gb and 400gb.

i am in the process of building brand new pc (see my past questions).and didnt intend to use sata but now i am thinking since i have it might as well use it.

btw both 400 gb are brand new (sata unopened), and the 180 is about 1.5 years old and 250 <1 year old.

i am not gona do much gaming or like once a rare while, if i do. but will do some photo editing and stuff and audio stuff. quite a bit.
keep in mind that i am not in to photo business so it wont be that i am doing this ALLL the time.

Answer 1

Well unless you have a hugely massive amount of photos, music, and videos, I would use the SATA for everything. If you really, really need to use some of the ATA drives, it is really up to you, do you want Windows to load a little faster, or do you want to be able to load your photos, music, and videos a little faster. Whichever you want faster, put them on the SATA. Personally I would put the photos, music, and videos on the SATA, so that I could have them all on one hard drive, since they will most likely take up more room than the Windows files.

Answer 2

Hi there. Yeah, good question. Basically, SATA is a newer and faster technology than the ATA. So I would use SATA to hold my system files (Windows XP etc.) and the slower ATA for storage. However, if you're planning to do gaming or graphics, yeah, go with SATA. Note, if you have tons and tons of photos, music, videos, and your ATA hdds are small in storage .. it's better off to get a new hdd with alot bigger storage capacity.

Hope this helps