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Best configuration of drives?
At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2.
Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the best arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the opticals as slaves? TIA |
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Great, thanks for the info
"Toshi1873" wrote in message ... In article Qt4nc.16$44.14@newsfe1-win, says... At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2. Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the best arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the opticals as slaves? TIA Personally, I'd put the HDDs on seperate cables along with an optical drive. Not sure if master/slave really matters. Try to put your burner optical on the other cable from where you place the files to be burned. So: Cable A: HDD + optical Cable B: HDD + optical I used to think that you shouldn't have two drives on a single cable, but apparently that's no longer an issue (according to those who have corrected me about that here in the discussion group). |
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"GTS" wrote in message news:Qt4nc.16$44.14@newsfe1-win... At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2. Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the best arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the opticals as slaves? The 2nd HDs as master and opticals as slaves unless one of the opticals is illbehaved. |
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"Toshi1873" wrote in message ... In article Qt4nc.16$44.14@newsfe1-win, says... At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2. Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the best arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the opticals as slaves? TIA Personally, I'd put the HDDs on seperate cables along with an optical drive. Not sure if master/slave really matters. Try to put your burner optical on the other cable from where you place the files to be burned. That's probably not important. |
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"Slug" wrote in message ... On Sat, 8 May 2004 12:13:50 -0400, Toshi1873 wrote: Cable A: HDD + optical Cable B: HDD + optical That would be a cabling nightmare. In fact it is practically impossible to do due to the physical placement of the drives in the case. HDD's usually go in the bottom of the case in 3 1/4" brackets and cdrom drives in the top of the case in 51/2" brackets. How are you going to cable all those drives using your configuration without moving the HDD's to the top of the case? So you're gonna pack the HDs next to each other where they'll burn each other up??? The cabling problem is tractable. Personally, I put my two HDD's on primary IDE as master and slave and then put my DVD and CDRW drives on the secondary IDE as master/slave. I expect if there is a perfromance hit, and I do emphasize "if", it is negligible. That is likely true for most cases. |
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"Ron Reaugh" wrote in message news
"Toshi1873" wrote in message ... In article Qt4nc.16$44.14@newsfe1-win, says... At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2. Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the best arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the opticals as slaves? TIA Personally, I'd put the HDDs on seperate cables along with an optical drive. Not sure if master/slave really matters. Try to put your burner optical on the other cable from where you place the files to be burned. That's probably not important. Actually, it can be problematic when you access the opt. drive that is on the same cable with the source drive while burning. |
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On Mon, 10 May 2004 20:59:15 +0200, "Folkert Rienstra"
wrote: Actually, it can be problematic when you access the opt. drive that is on the same cable with the source drive while burning. Why? -- Map Of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: http://www.freewebs.com/vrwc/ "You can all go to hell, and I will go to Texas." --David Crockett |
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"Folkert Rienstra" wrote in message ... "Ron Reaugh" wrote in message news "Toshi1873" wrote in message ... In article Qt4nc.16$44.14@newsfe1-win, says... At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2. Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the best arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the opticals as slaves? TIA Personally, I'd put the HDDs on seperate cables along with an optical drive. Not sure if master/slave really matters. Try to put your burner optical on the other cable from where you place the files to be burned. That's probably not important. Actually, it can be problematic when you access the opt. drive that is on the same cable with the source drive while burning. Nope, generally that works with no difficulty as the bandwidth usage is minimal. I suppose that there could be a special compatibility case but in general it works fine. |
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"Bob" wrote in message ... On Mon, 10 May 2004 20:59:15 +0200, "Folkert Rienstra" wrote: Actually, it can be problematic when you access the opt. drive that is on the same cable with the source drive while burning. Why? Because it may block the source drive for several seconds, spinning-up the motor/disk to speed and seeking to the desired data and transfer. |
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