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booker · 11-09-2003, 07:51 PM

If your motherboard doesn't have USB2.0 ports, you might be able to find an IDE-USB controller that fits into a PCI slot, but it just isn't worth it.

For very large files, or formatting, USB is not a good way to go. USB is great when you have 60MB of images and you want to take them off your camera's compact flash and get 'em on your drive.

Well anyway.. if you can, I'd go out get drop some cash on a motherboard/CPU/memory combination that'll give you 4 (or 6) USB 2.0 ports, two IDE channels and two SATA channels.. SATA is Serial ATA, which controls hard drives and is many times faster than current IDE cables.

My setup is an Asus A7N8X mother board & AMD 2600+ CPU w/ 512MB PC3200 RAM and 80GB EIDE UltraATA drive and a 120GB SATA drive.. it'll run Dreamweaver, Photoshop, ACDSee, ICQ, AIM, mIRC and 8 IE windows and absolutely fly. Built the whole thing for less than $500 from newegg.com.

11-09-2003, 07:51 PM
booker Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Baltimore Posts: 1,370	If your motherboard doesn't have USB2.0 ports, you might be able to find an IDE-USB controller that fits into a PCI slot, but it just isn't worth it. For very large files, or formatting, USB is not a good way to go. USB is great when you have 60MB of images and you want to take them off your camera's compact flash and get 'em on your drive. Well anyway.. if you can, I'd go out get drop some cash on a motherboard/CPU/memory combination that'll give you 4 (or 6) USB 2.0 ports, two IDE channels and two SATA channels.. SATA is Serial ATA, which controls hard drives and is many times faster than current IDE cables. My setup is an Asus A7N8X mother board & AMD 2600+ CPU w/ 512MB PC3200 RAM and 80GB EIDE UltraATA drive and a 120GB SATA drive.. it'll run Dreamweaver, Photoshop, ACDSee, ICQ, AIM, mIRC and 8 IE windows and absolutely fly. Built the whole thing for less than $500 from newegg.com. __________________ Xanadu024 (aim) or 286785389 (icq) "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."