I recently finished putting together a computer of my own, and know the ins and outs of the hardware pretty well, but I have some questions reguarding performance and compatability.

(Current setup: 1.4 gig AMD Athlon Thunderbird with 266FSB, EPoX 8KHA MB with host clock set to 133mhz, 256 megs of Muskin 2100 ram, a Voodoo 3 3000 video card, and a crappy 13 gig Maxtor that can only handle ATA33 (Just ordered a 100gig Western Digital 7200 RPM with an 8mb Buffer on it. WHOO!...might get a second one of those if I need to)

One question I have about this is how should I set up the two hard drive when it comes to what should be on what buss. Would it be better to put the crap hard drive and the CD-ROM on the primary buss, and the nice large hard drive on the Secondary buss and set at ATA100? Or should both hard drives be on the same buss, and the CD-ROM be on the Secondary.

I have an old ATI TV Wonder card, and have used it with Virtual Dub in Windows 98. Unless at lower resolutions, I'd drop frames, but I won't really worry about that until the next hard drive comes in the mail.

What I plan on doing is taking the current hard drive, partition it in half, and use Partition Magic to make the other partition on the small hard drive Windows 2000. The new 100 gig hard drive will be nothing but an NTFS partition, and all video captured will go there.

Is there anything that I should be aware of, such as spicific software updates that I will need before going through the task of installing 2000. I mainly just want that partition to be booted exclusivly for the purpose of video captureing and editing.

Is there a boost in capture performance in Windows 2000 in comparision to Windows 98?....or any other operating system for that matter?