IDE and ATA 100 question


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Hi,

I need advice on what would be the ideal way to add a 30 gig maxtor hard drive as slave with a 40 gig maxtor as master. Both are ata 100 and I would like to fully utilize that for best performance. I am awaiting a new system to arrive and it has the 40 gig installed and I will be pulling the 30 gig out of my old system.

The new system will have also a dvd and cdrw installed also and I want to know what would be the right place to connect it to.

I hear of problems connecting it to the same cable is the first hard drive and I want to avoid any problems.

any help would be appreciated..

thanx

Gk

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I would put both harddrives on one IDE and the opticals on the other IDE, some will say not too, because most traffic will be between the two HDs on the same IDE. I think its easier the first was just for the sake of hooking them up physically

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Thanks,

I actually got something wrong in my earlier post. My 30 gig is ATA-5/UDMA 66 and not ata 100 but the 40 gig is ata 100. (sorry i should have reread my post)

Would that effect me getting less performance with the 40 gig being that the 30 gig is ata 66? And should I now be concerned where I connect them and to what??

thanks for the reply,

Gk

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Tell you the truth, unless you are doing some serious file-moving, it really won't make much of a difference... I'd just put both hard drives on one cable, both optical drives on the other cable - this will be much easier to do and will avoid clutter in your tower..

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The way I would do it is hook up your the hard drive you'll use the most to the optical drive you use the least, and then vice versa for the other cable. That way accessing your cd drives won't slow down your hard drive since drives on the same IDE cable cannot be used at the same time, whereas each IDE channel can be transferring at the same time.

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