2 hard drives on 1 cable or 2 cables.

[Techno]

Hi,

If i were to have 2 hard drives that were the same make and model number. Would there be an disadvantage to having them connected to the same Primary Channel on the mother board or should i keep 1 one primary and 1 on secondary.

Thanks

 

[John]

Unless you are running raid, leave them on the same channel (master/slave).

 

[DimZiE]

no...there wouldn't be any disadvantages

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

Techno,

Like they said, only if you're running a RAID would you want to put it on individual controllers. Mainly because with RAID boards you have enough headers to place your IDE drives on their own as well as your CDRW/CDROM etc. The one thing you want to avoid is putting any IDE drive on the same cable as your CDROM or CDRW. This can slow down your hard drive considerably. :Q

 

[TunaBoo]

If you trasnfer between them. On the same cable it will suck.

 

[dweller]

At the moment, I have my IBM hard drive on one cable, my much smaller and slower Maxtor on another cable with my Pioneer 106S DVD player. Does that make sense?

Thanks.

Doug

 

[corkyg]

>>>If you transfer between them. On the same cable it will suck. <<<

T'aint necessarily so. I have had dual hard drives on the same cable for probably 6 years now in two different computers, and have never had a problem of that nature. As long as one is Master and the other Slave, it works. I use the Cable Select jumper setting and use CSEL cable, and the cable position then decides which is M or S. (End is M and middle is S)