IDE device setup question

[moosey]

I have a DVD reader, DVD burner, and CD burner. All are IDE devices and I have 2 IDE channels on my motherboard. All my HDDs are SATA.

I use the DVD reader as my main drive (like for games and all) and like to use it as the source drive when burning DVDs and CDs as often as possible. Would either of these 2 setup options make a difference in performance of any of the drives?

OPTION A
Channel 1- CD burner (master), DVD reader (slave)
Channel 2- DVD Burner (master)

OPTION B
Channel 1- DVD reader (master)
Channel 2- DVD burner (master), CD burner (slave)

Thanks

 

[imported_Kensai]

Option A will be the fastest.

 

[Duvie]

I think OPT A is the best.....Why keep both burners when most modern DVD burners are as fast a CD burner as standalone burners???

Back to OPT A....All burners should be master (some specifially recommend it).....

 

[airfoil]

Option A is best. You could copy non copy protected DVDs by keeping the writer & reader on separate channels, and its unlikely that you'll use the CDRW and DVD-ROM at the same time.

 

[tren001]

Duvie is right, you should ditch the CD-burner unless your DVD burner can only burn CDs at 8x or below. If it can burn CDs at 16x, then there's no point in having a separate CD burner.

 

[moosey]

guess i could get rid of the burner, I just like it cause its the Yamaho one that can burn images onto the unused portion. I'll go with option A thogh when setting things up

 

[kobymu]

Originally posted by: Kensai
Option A will be the fastest.

:thumbsup:

 

[l Xes l]

ditttto

 

[Zepper]

If all of your drives can operate at UDMA 33 or above, it shouldn't make much difference. But I would have the source drive on a separate channel from the target drive. My first choice is to put each PATA drive on a separate channel (a good controller costs less than $20. shipped these days). That's one of the two real improvements of SATA - i.e. smaller cabling and each drive is on its own channel
. If you don't want to get a controller, I would choose to have both burners on one channel and the DVD reader on the other (DVD reader most often will be the source for burns on the other two). That Yamaha is an excellent burner and collector's item. Let me know if you ever want to sell it - I'm serious!

.bh.