How to hook up the hard drive and dvd drive?

[ingeborgdot]

I know the standard way to hook up a hard drive is to hook it up to #1 and the dvd to #2. I have a hard drive and 2 dvd drives. I talked to someone and they said the fastest way for the setup to work is to set the hard drive to #1 as master and the dvd rom to #1 as slave. Then hook up the dvd rw to #2 as master. What is your take on this? What does it do for the computer? Thanks.

 

[boshuter]

Either way will work just as well. This used to be an issue but with any semi-newer hardware it really doesn't matter. Some people think one way is faster if you are trying to do disk to disk copying, but it simply isn't. I like to keep my hdd on a different channel than my optical drives..... again, this is just habit I picked up and have a hard time getting rid of