How should I set up my drives?

[screw3d]

Right now, I have a WD 80GB on the primary IDE channel and a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW on the secondary IDE channel.

I have a 160GB Samsung 1614N (PATA) drive on the way from Newegg.

Should I just put the Samsung as primary master and the WD as primary slave, or should I just use the Serillel and connect the Samsung to the SATA connector on my NF7-S?

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: screw3d
Right now, I have a WD 80GB on the primary IDE channel and a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW on the secondary IDE channel.

I have a 160GB Samsung 1614N (PATA) drive on the way from Newegg.

Should I just put the Samsung as primary master and the WD as primary slave, or should I just use the Serillel and connect the Samsung to the SATA connector on my NF7-S?

If the drive is Parallel-ATA, how would you connect it to a SATA header?

 

[Heretik]

I think the NF7-S comes with a SATA adapter...

 

[daos]

if i were you, i would get those optical drives seperate from each other. do not put 2 optical drives on the same channel. i suggest using one HDD and one optical per channel.

 

[kaizersose]

Originally posted by: daos
if i were you, i would get those optical drives seperate from each other. do not put 2 optical drives on the same channel. i suggest using one HDD and one optical per channel.

why would you separate them?

 

[screw3d]

Originally posted by: hjo3

Originally posted by: screw3d
Right now, I have a WD 80GB on the primary IDE channel and a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW on the secondary IDE channel.

I have a 160GB Samsung 1614N (PATA) drive on the way from Newegg.

Should I just put the Samsung as primary master and the WD as primary slave, or should I just use the Serillel and connect the Samsung to the SATA connector on my NF7-S?

If the drive is Parallel-ATA, how would you connect it to a SATA header?

That is why I use the Serillel adapter

 

[screw3d]

Ummm?

 

[screw3d]

??

 

[3chordcharlie]

if you do direct cd-cd copies, wihtout burning an image to the hard drive, having the optical drives on different channels is a good idea. honestly though it doesn't make that big a difference otherwise (if you always copy a cd image to hard drive, then burn the new cd).

no matter how you hook it up, it'll more than likely work fine.