Hard Drive Questions

[Marabyte]

Hi there!!!

I have two questions about HD.

1 - Witch gives better performance, 2 HD in the same IDE channel and DVD / cd-writer in the other channel or making combinations between HD / DVD and cd-writer?

2 - Does the "Smart drive" option in the bios really work? What exactly it does?


thx for your time

 

[newuser]

SMART works but you need to install additional software (free) to see the data it gives like HDD temps

Put both HDD on the same cable, the optical drives on the other

 

[StraightPipe]

Welcome to anand tech!

keep the ide's parrallel, 2 Hdd or 2 optical(cd-r, DVD),
but dont mix

 

[Marabyte]

But it wont slow down cd copy's on the fly?
the transfer rate between IDE drives in the same channel isnt half of the maximum rate?

thanks guys!

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[EeyoreX]

If you do more cd to cd copying and/or copy files from one hard drive to the other often, I would put them like this

IDE1= Hard drive 1
IDE2= CD/DVD-ROM
IDE3= Hard drive 2
IDE4= CD/DVD/RW

As long as you use 80 pin IDE cables you will not lose any performance, each drive will perform at its maximum capable. Fo example, if you have an ATA100 hard drive and a ATA33 CD-ROM on the same cable, the hard drive will perform at ATA100 and the CD-ROM at ATA33. As long as you use an 80 pin IDE cable.

If you only access on optical drive and/or one hard drive at a time then it doesn't really matter.

\Dan

 

[Maggotry]

Originally posted by: EeyoreX
If you do more cd to cd copying and/or copy files from one hard drive to the other often, I would put them like this

IDE1= Hard drive 1
IDE2= CD/DVD-ROM
IDE3= Hard drive 2
IDE4= CD/DVD/RW

As long as you use 80 pin IDE cables you will not lose any performance, each drive will perform at its maximum capable. Fo example, if you have an ATA100 hard drive and a ATA33 CD-ROM on the same cable, the hard drive will perform at ATA100 and the CD-ROM at ATA33. As long as you use an 80 pin IDE cable.

If you only access on optical drive and/or one hard drive at a time then it doesn't really matter.

\Dan

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