Best way to configure for best on-the-fly performance?

[optimistic]

Well I like doing on the fly burning and I thought keeping the burner and source drive on the same channel was the best way to do it. But I heard it wasn't.

I thought sharing IDE channels with the hard drive and your slower CDROM devices was a bad thing? Being that the hard drive runs at 66/mbs+ transfer and the cdrom 33/mbs transfer. Won't both devices have to run the slower speed? Hmm.....I'm confused now on how to set up my drives for best on-the-fly performance

Right now, I have:
IDE 1 -> Harddrive (Primary) -> Harddrive 2 (Secondary)
IDE 2 -> Liteon 16x DVD (Primary) -> Sony 40x12x48 (Secondary)


So What do I do? What I have now is ok?

 

[Scarpozzi]

You have a RAM buffer in you CD burner that holds the data just before it burns to a cd. The only time it would matter which channel on your IDE bus the drives are located would be when you're reading/writing on your hard drive WHILE burning. Of course, that can't possibly be a problem because your burner has that buffer. True, some operating systems don't handle certain programs as well as others, but as long as you have a burner with burnproof, you should be fine. The write speed of a cd burner is nothing compared to the speed of a hard drive.

Another note: Early burners had problems because RAM was expensive and it was common for comptuers to run out of RAM and write to the harddrive to do the simplest of tasks. That's why burners tend to work better....RAM is cheaper.

Your current configuration should be fine.

-Ryan

 

[optimistic]

hmm.. thanks for the info