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| 134843 | 2003-04-10 08:34:00 | My computer has a DVD-Rom, a CD-Writer, and a hard-drive. I just got another 60gig, which I will be using to store my movies and music etc. Should I put this drive as a slave on the existing primary IDE channel (which currently only holds my primary hard drive) or should I use the onboard RAID on my motherboard (set to ATA mode) to have the second hard drive on its own channel? Basically I would like to know the performance pros and cons when sharing IDE channels between devices. Can anyone give me some information on this subject? Cheers |
Dakha (3577) | ||
| 134844 | 2003-04-10 09:23:00 | Using the seperate IDE connector would give you a speed increase as the primary master can access the data on the secondary master at the virtually the same time. If you have a RAID capable board the best bet for a speed increase would be setting up RAID 0 which stripes the data across both disks. | Gorela (901) | ||
| 134845 | 2003-04-10 09:35:00 | You might like to have a read of a RAID test done by overclockers.com.au (www.overclockers.com.au) | Gorela (901) | ||
| 134846 | 2003-04-10 21:43:00 | Thank you, but I am not interested in having a RAID, what I am wanting to know is, will there be any significant issues in using my RAID controller to provide dedicated channels to each of my devices, and if not, which devices i should put on each channel (As mentioned above, i have 2 ATAPI devices and 2 HDDS. Should i do the following: Primary onboard: HDD 0 Secondary onboard: DVD-ROM Primary (RAID): HDD 1 Secondary (RAID): CD-Writer |
Dakha (3577) | ||
| 134847 | 2003-04-11 01:56:00 | Don't know about the RAID, but having two drives on the same channel will only really be a problem if you do a lot of copying from one drive to the other. | bmason (508) | ||
| 134848 | 2003-04-11 03:38:00 | I will probably be copying a significant amount of data between the drives, hence the consideration for RAID. can anyone just give me a sentence or two explaining any performance increases i might get with the drives on different channels | Dakha (3577) | ||
| 134849 | 2003-05-03 23:42:00 | Well having hdd's on the same IDE connection would be better. It's not wise to have cd's / burners especially burners on the same ide as a hard drive. It can and will create errors when u burn to a cd... this is coz of the difference in speed between burners and hard drives. Hard drives should be primary master, the faster CD/Burner master secondary. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 134850 | 2003-05-04 00:15:00 | dakha- that setup is fine. try to keep all drives on seperate ide's if at all possible. on thing to note- not all raid cards will run cd drives on them. you may have to stick both hd's on the raid card (in ata mode of course). | tweak'e (174) | ||
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