Re: should I get SATA drives for old PC?

[Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu>]

At Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:54:14 -0400, I asked:

> Before I build a Lenny system on my 5-year-old PC, I want to replace the
> two internal hard drives. ... What difficulties (if any) might I expect in
> setting up the SATA drives? ... If I buy a SATA 3 GB/s drive, will this
> motherboard only give me 150 MB/s anyway?

At Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:22:57 -0500, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
replied:

> I'd put the OS on the IDE drive, and /home and swap on the SATA drive

Thanks, that was helpful.  I'll probably go with that advice.