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Topic: fairly quick PC question. (Read 2998 times)
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SurfD
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I just got my new S-Ata drive, and am wondering: If i set up the S-Ata as primary harddrive, what would be the best way to set up my IDE HDD and DVD?
Should i keep them on the same IDE Channel, or should I seperate them both to masters on seperate channels?
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geldonyetich
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I've heard from some sources that if you mount a faster drive with a slower drive on the same IDE cable, it'll actually cause the motherboard to slow the access of the faster drive. However, I'm not sure if this is evident with newer hardware or equipment.
Personally, I'd be tempted to get a dedicated IDE cable for the faster drive on a "just in case" scenario.
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Trippy
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I just got my new S-Ata drive, and am wondering: If i set up the S-Ata as primary harddrive, what would be the best way to set up my IDE HDD and DVD?
Should i keep them on the same IDE Channel, or should I seperate them both to masters on seperate channels? Separate channels is best. If you don't want to do that (e.g. too much cable clutter) then it depends what you are doing with your secondary IDE hard drive. If it's just there to store stuff (MP3s, etc.) then you probably want to set your DVD drive as the master, especially if it's a DVD+/-RW drive. A DVD drive set as a slave device will sometimes "stutter" on DVD playback and it's generally best to set up your burner as a master device. However if your IDE hard drive is going to run applications/games or handle video capture then it's sort of a toss up. |
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geldonyetich
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Obviously, I didn't know what an SATA drive is, because according to my google search, 'With a Serial ATA interface, each disc drive has its own cable that connects directly to a Serial ATA host adapter or a Serial ATA port on your motherboard. Unlike Parallel ATA, there is no master-slave relationship between drives that use a Serial ATA interface." Apparently SATA drives don't use IDA cables, but rather connect to special SATA interfaces. Nevermind me. I'm not as up to date in computer hardware as I thought i was.
I will say that I would use a dedicated data channel for my main drive so long as that's the one where the virtual cache is going. The more performance on the cache drive, the better.
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Trippy
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He's asking what to do with his IDE hard drive and IDE DVD drive not what to do with his new SATA drive.
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geldonyetich
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Erm, okay. What you said then. Depends on what you want your IDE to be doing. If it's just storage of out of the way crap, performance isn't an issue. If you're putting your virtual cache over on the IDE because you're hoping to seperate it from the main drive (which theoretically can boost performance), a unique channel for the IDE drive a must. (Although it's been my experience that, in general, the cache best goes on the fastest drive, even if you're using it for other things, and likely your brand new SATA drive is the fastest accessing drive you've got.)
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SurfD
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well, i have decided to go
S-Ata, for primary bootable disk (it sits on its own Via-raid controller)
IDE HDD set to Primary Master (primary IDE channel)
DVD R/RW set to Secondary Master (secondary IDE channel)
so far, things are going quite nicely.
I cant wait till i save up enough cash to grab another 200 gig S-ATA and throw it on a Striped Raid Array
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