Seasons Greetings to all.

I am adding a new HDD to my Asus A8V system (specs below). This AGP, SATA I, VIA chipset mobo has 2 SATA controllers. The Via one and a Promise SATA controller.

I currently have a single 250Gb Seagate 7200.8 drive in the system which is connected to the Promise controller and running in IDE mode.

I was looking to add another HDD and wanted to remain with Seagate. Seagate's latest 7200.9 & 7200.10 SATA II drives operate with perpendicular recording.

I will be using this new additional drive to back up info from the existing HDD ie data back up by way of creating an extended logical partition as well as copying bootable partitions with BiNG or PM in dos mode (o/s partitions from the original drive will of course be hidden on the second drive).

My question is as follows:

Given that these HDDs will both be running on the Promise SATA controller, is there likely to be an issue with mixing a normal Seagate HDD with a new perpendicular write one, especially in view of the fact that I will be cloning (and restoring) partitions between these two disks.

I hope that I have explained myself clearly. Apologies for asking a silly question,

Many thanks for any info provided

Cheers

If both drives are designed for and operate on an IDE interface the way in which the data is stored physically on the medium shouldn't affect anything other than that, with perpendicular recording, more data can be stored per square inch of the medium. I imagine that even if you wanted to add two such dissimilar drives to a RAID array that they should function just fine, even though for best results drives are best matched in all respects.

No, the way the drive actually stores the data on the platters isn't going to matter.

hehe... i like your question... (as they said, 'no' is answer.)

Most kind guys

hehe... i like your question... (as they said, 'no' is answer.)

alternate, one can never be too prepared when building or upgrading pcs. :)

Cheers