On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 13:15, ne... wrote: > On Oct 5, 2004 at 12:36, Colin J Thomson in a soothing rage wrote: > >I would like some advice please, I have just updated my Mobo to an Abit > >NF7-S 2.0 which is working extremely well with Fedora and my next > > planned upgrade are the Hard Drives. > >At the moment the machine has 2 Hard drives, ATA133 (40G) and an old > >ATA33 (5G) for backup. > >This Mobo has on board SATA150, So my question(s) are: > > > >Is it worth it (or at all possible) to install a SATA drive and keep my > >existing 40Gig drive (for backup) and maybe ditch the 5Gig drive. > > Yep, but more a question of when and how much money you have > burning a hole in your pocket. As you use FC, I guess you will > be upgrading to FC3. If you are, I would hold of on the purchase > for a little while. When FC3 drops, get the drive and do a fresh > install. Then move stuff over from the old install. That is a very good point, but I do not have any plans to move to FC3 perhaps FC4. This Box is very cutomised and it would be a lot of work and time to upgrade and move stuff over etc. Colin -- Fedora Core 2, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.8.1 KDE-Redhat-3.3.0-5.0.2.kde Registered Linux user number 342953