I'm finally planning out a new system to build in December.  I'm researching the new SATA hard drives and wondered if anyone had any experience Ghosting these; both backup and restore?

I'm just starting to research all of the hardware that I'm considering and am surprised at low little there is on SATA drives.  I guess until Intel came out with their new Intel 875P MCH and ICH5R chipsets, you actually had to use specially loaded drivers for SATA.

Appreciate any replies!  Thanks!

I ghost a seagate pata drive to a seagate sata drive and vice versa. the pata is 120GB. the sata is 160GB. NO problems. My friends has two 74GB WD Raptors and Ghost works fine with them too. I've heard you need the most recent live update for sata drives.

Thanks tab.

What's the system gonna look like?

Hey Rad,

Haven't settled on it yet.  I like to make these projects a hobby so I start researching months ahead.  It's interesting and entertaining when your time frame is a few months out.  Lots to learn since CUSL2 which I love and is rock solid with WinXP SP2 and my hundreds of tweaks and dozens of programs.

I still don't know why I'm building another system except it will be four years since my last one and I love to have a good project during my two weeks off at Xmas.  I just grow too attached to good systems that run everything i want.

Anyway, here are my musings so far.  Long way to go.  Sorry for the formatting.  I just keep adding my ideas to a .txt file that I pasted:

MOTHERBOARD 478 SOCKET:
     ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe
     AOpen AX4C Max II

CPU:
     Pentium 4 3.0MHz 800MHz CPU's.  Available:

     >SL6WK  3.00 GHz 800 MHz 0.13 micron D1 512 KB 478 pin PPGA FC-PGA2<
     SL78Z  3.00 GHz 800 MHz 0.13 micron D1 512 KB 478 pin PPGA
     SL6WU  3.00 GHz 800 MHz 0.13 micron D1 512 KB 478 pin PPGA


MEMORY:
     Corsair XMS3200 CAS2 DDR400

CASE:
     Enermax CS-5171LBFS-S      400W PS
     SkyHawk MATRIX Silver ATX Mid Tower Case with Motor Drive Door, Model "PSR5605W-SL" -RETAIL
     C454BK / C454BKT - Case Depot

VIDEO CARD:
     ATI RADEON 9800 PRO Video Card, 256MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP

SOUND CARD?:
     Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy      Model???
     Sound Blaster Audigy 2  (or 2ZS?)

LAN:
     Built into MB or use LinkSys from AMD system.

MODEM:
     Zonet V.92 56K PCI Data/Fax Modem, Model ZFM5620-CF

HARD DRIVES:
     Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, MODEL 6Y080M0, OEM Drive  
     Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, MODEL 6Y080M0, OEM Drive

FLOPPY DRIVE:
     Alps Black 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive, Model DF354H121F, OEM

OPTICAL DRIVES:
     DVD-ROM
     DVD-RW

CPU HEATSINK:
     Alpha S-PAL8952  

FANS:


CABLES:

just playing with the plan right now.