Topic: Hard drive help
So it looks like my hard drive is dying.. it makes clunking noises on bootup but seems to run fine once booted so I always leave the computer on. I'm glad it is my system drive and not the one with all the data on it.
I'm still using IDE and doing a full upgrade to a new setup with SATA is not an option right now. Don't really want to mess some adapter either. My data disk is full so I could use that as the new OS drive and get something bigger for data. Should I go internal or external?
Seems like an internal IDE would be a total waste once I get a new computer w/ SATA later down the road but an external would still be useful for backups. Are the externals real slow over USB and meant mostly for nightly backups etc. or can I be using it day in and out pretty transparently?