EIDE controller card

[Link19]

If I use an EIDE controller card so I can connect an additional 4 drives to my system for a total of 8, will it slow down performance of the drive hooked to it, or overall system performance? Also can I use my old EIDE cables to connect a new drive (1 year old, 2 years old, 3 years old cables)? Is ATA/133 significantly faster than ATA/100 for 7200 RPM 8 MB cache hard drives?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Link19
If I use an EIDE controller card so I can connect an additional 4 drives to my system for a total of 8, will it slow down performance of the drive hooked to it, or overall system performance?

depends

Also can I use my old EIDE cables to connect a new drive (1 year old, 2 years old, 3 years old cables)?

If they aren't ATA66 or better ..I wouldn't

Is ATA/133 significantly faster than ATA/100 for 7200 RPM 8 MB cache hard drives?

burst yes..sustained all slows down...

 

[Link19]

So it depends on whether I use an EIDE controller card on whether it will slow down system performance or the drives hooked to it. I plan for it to be a EIDE card ATA/100 or ATA/133 that goes into a PCI slot with a hard drive and a CD-RW drive hooked to it each on their own cable. I plan to have one hard drive hooked to the primary master on the regular EIDE controller and a DVD-ROM and DVD-RW hooked to the secondary master on the same cable(one as slave and one as master). Will this kind of configuration slow anything down? Or what does it depend on?

And for ATA/133 hard drive vs ATA/100 hard drive, what do you mean by burst and sustained? Is Maxtor the only maker of ATA/133 hard drives at this time? Are CD/DVD drives measured in ATA/100, ATA/133, or something else?