Adding a SATA drive
Any reason why I can't add a SATA drive to an Intel D865GBF motherboard ? The board should support 1 SATA drive if I enable it in BIOS.
Looking at the Maxtor offering as I have used those drives for years with no problems.
I have just got into TV cards and some Internet radio. Video editing is proving to be a bit of a problem and despite having a Maxtor 7200rpm 120Mb 8Mb cache drive where all of the media is stored, it is proving to be slow.
I already use both IDE interfaces to the full - hard drive on each as Master drives and a CD-RW drive on each channel as Secondary drives.
Current system is ;
Motherboard as above
1Gb memory
2.4GHz Pentium 4 CPU
OS : Win2000K Pro
Good to see that more manufacturers are starting to make 8Mb cache as default now - I have found that it makes a big difference. Not sure about the increased 7200rpm -> 10,000rpm. I've tried to source a SATA 10,000rpm drive with 8Mb cache and had some rather strange looks !
As an aside any ideas why my FSB speed is showing as 133MHz on this Motherboard when it should be 512 I think ?
As always, advice much appreciated.
LL34