HD ?'s

[XPac]

I just bought a 80 GB WD SE drive and have it installed as a slave. I install games on it, and I moved my paging file onto this disk. Basically I wanted the faster drive to be the "gaming" drive, so does it matter that the O/S is installed on the 2 MB cache "slower" drive? Also, would it make sense to put a paging file on both drives?

 

[SaveYourself]

an IDE channel runs only as fast as its slowest device. Two hard drives of different speeds on the same channel, as well as a hard drive on the same channel as a CDROM drive, are both bad ideas.

 

[arcenite]

an IDE channel runs only as fast as its slowest device. Two hard drives of different speeds on the same channel, as well as a hard drive on the same channel as a CDROM drive, are both bad ideas.

Not neccessarily. With the newer ATA133 specification (and maybe even 100 I don't know) you can have a 5400rpm drive and a 7200rpm drive (and unless you're copying from drive to drive) the speeds will stay consistent with the drive. When it comes to cd-rom's and hard drives, I am not quite sure. Though I do not believe by today's standards it's a big deal. If you can avoid it, I would just incase.

Bill