Re: IDE array question

"DaveW" <somewhere@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eZ6dnQ5iyajkhiHZnZ2dnUVZ_uudnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.

Nonsense. See:
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/IDE-Configuration-ftopict190833.html



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