Re: IDE array question

DaveW <somewhere@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

For the fastest speeds of data transfer in your systemyou want to
have the two harddrives on IDE 1 and the two optical drives on IDE 2.

The optical drives are much slower in transfer rates than the
harddrives and so you do NOT want to mix them on an IDE channel.

Utterly mangled. The hard drives dont run at the speed
of the optical drives if they are on the same IDE channel.


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"The Seabat" <seabat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This has probably been debated forever, but maybe some one can give
me a difinitive answer. Ha!

I have two 40GB hard drives, one DVD burner and one CD/RW burner.
What is the best way to arrainge these puppies on the two IDE
channels for optimum performance? I don't plan on ever doing any
disc-to-disc copying, so that is not a concern. Right now I have the
boot drive and the DVD burner on the Primary channel and the other
hard drive and the CD/RW burner on the Secondary channel. Both the
CD and DVD drives are set as slaves and the hard drives set as
masters. Someone said that it is better to have both hard drives on the
Primary and the two burners on the Secondary. Is this better than
the way I have it?

Running Windows 98, Athlon XP 1800+, 256MB RAM
Thank you.

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The Seabat


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