How should I arrange my HDs and CDs?

[UF Jspec]

I have 2 HDs, a CD-ROM, and a CD-RW... what is the best configuration for these drives??

Current configuration

Primary Master - Western Digital 3.2GB
Primary Slave - Samsung 2.0GB

Secondary Master - HP 9500i CDRW
Secondary Slave - Memorex 48x

I just got a IBM 30GB which will become the primary master.

Thanks everyone!

 

[raz]

I'm no guru, but I think you want to switch your Samsung and Memorex around. You want to keep your CD drives on seperate channels so you can do CD-to-CD burning.

-editted for spelling (like there's a lot of big words )

 

[Dan]

UF Jspec: I would set up as follows:

Primary Master: IBM 30GB
Secondary Master: Memorex 48X
Secondary Slave: HP 9500i

If you put the Memorex or HP on the same channel as your new IBM HDD you will take a tremendous performance hit. That's because the HDD is so much faster than your CD-ROM and CDRW.

FYI: I never have problems burning CD-to-CD with the following configuration:

Primary Master: Maxtor 45GB
Secondary Master: Acer 50X
Secondary Slave: Sony CRX140E CDRW

 

[raz]

You might want to check out this thread.

 

[Duvie]

I agree with raz...I have actually gotten warnings/errors saying to the effect of reading and writing on same channel. Now I was tryin to burn at max 12x and on the fly copy, and I did update the nero programs afterwards.

I run

Primary Master: 13.6 Maxtor HDD
Primary Slave: Kenwood 42x ( the cd-rom I use for on the fly copying)

Secondary Master: Aopen 12x10x32x CD-RW
Secondary Slave: BTC 8x32x DVD-ROM

Have benched the crap out of all the drives I notice no performance decrease versus old system. Don't get the warning anymore. The kenwood still rips audio to the HDD at same speed as before...Now I use the Aopen because it can rip DAE info at 30x.

New setup will have the HDD going to a new ata100 controller and the Kenwood will once again becopme the master of its own channel.

IMHO I would put HDD and the CD-rom you are most likely to use for cd to cd copy in a configuration like mine.

 

[Dan]

One other option that I forgot to mention: get a controller card, i.e., Promise, SIIG, etc., and run each device on it's own channel.