HD Configuration

[airbornflght]

Ok, I have just recently came into possesion of an American Mega Trends series 490 scsi controller card with 64mb of ram and a seagate 18gb scsi hdd.

Now consider this, I have the the 18gb scsi, a 60gb ide, and a 250gb SATA drive. What would be the best configuration for the drives?

I am thinking, that it would be best to do the following:


Boot: SCSI
Programs: IDE
Storage: SATA


Can you think of any better way to utilize the drives? I may also be on here later as I'm a virgin to the word of SCSI drives and controllers, so honestly, looking at a drive with 3 sets of jumpers is a bit scary.:bigggrin: Not to mention the controller had 4 or so more sets of jumpers. I'm trying to track down the manual to the controller. I found the manual for the drive.

[airbornflght]

Come on guys, I'm itching to plug it in!!!

IT'S MY FIRST SCSI!!

[primesuspect]

I'd reverse it. Put the OS on the scsi drive, the programs on the sata, and storage on the IDE.

[edcentric]

What are you using the box for? You want the files that you are now waiting on to be on the SCSI drive. If you have programs with a lot of read/writes then they go on the SCSI. If you need fast scratch space, then it goes on the SCSI.

[airbornflght]

Well, pretty much its my general purpose rig that I do a little bit of everything on it.

InDesign, Photoshop, coding, barely any video editing or video games. I would use the ide for storage, except I have about 100+gigs of programs/music to store. So I figured that the 60 gig ide would be big enough to install all of my programs onto.