someone answer my question

[Anubis]

On my new comp stuff is coming, mobile 2400+ mobo new case,..

Anyway I?m planning on putting in 2 DVD-Roms - DVD burner and a DVD player and 4-5 HDs and I?m curious to which setup would yield the best performance

so 2 DVD drives
5 HDs
all IDE

i have a Promice PCI IDE card and i can hook them up in a few different ways

Run 4 Hard drives off mobo IDE channels and run the DVD roms off the PCI IDE card as well as 1 HD

Run 4 HDs off the PCI IDE card run the windows HD off the mobo and the DVD roms off the mobo

Run 2 HDs off the MObo and 2 CDroms off Mobo, other 3 HDs off the IDE card

I could run 2 HDs off the mobo as masters and then the DVD roms as slaves and then the 3 other HDs off the IDE card 2 as masters 1 as a slave.

This stuff has always confused me, so which would be the most efficient/ best performing way to connect all this

my current setup is similar i have the 2 DVD drives on teh mobo as well as 2 HDs and a 3rd HD on the PIC IDE card, but with the addition of 2 more HDs i woudl like to know which setup will be best

 

[techfuzz]

IMO, you'll want the bootable hard drive and the DVD burner on the motherboard for the best performance. Then I'd stick a couple of the remaining drives on the motherboard and with whatever is left over build another computer.

techfuzz

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: techfuzz
IMO, you'll want the bootable hard drive and the DVD burner on the motherboard for the best performance. Then I'd stick a couple of the remaining drives on the motherboard and with whatever is left over build another computer.

techfuzz

i actually need all that space on 1 computer

 

[Ness]

Run 2 HDs off the MObo and 2 CDroms off Mobo, other 3 HDs off the IDE card

Probably the better choice. I would think things are more likely to hiccup going through an ATA controller card than the mobo. It would suck to waste a DVD R every now and then because of this.


Just for kicks and giggles, I would get removable HD racks for the 3 HDs hooked to the controller card.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Ness

Run 2 HDs off the MObo and 2 CDroms off Mobo, other 3 HDs off the IDE card

Probably the better choice. I would think things are more likely to hiccup going through an ATA controller card than the mobo. It would suck to waste a DVD R every now and then because of this.


Just for kicks and giggles, I would get removable HD racks for the 3 HDs hooked to the controller card.

yea that woudl suck. long ago i had my old sys running a CDrom and CDRW drive each on a diff channel on teh IDE card and 2HDs as masters on the mobo, never had burning issues, but DVD is so much more data

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: techfuzz
IMO, you'll want the bootable hard drive and the DVD burner on the motherboard for the best performance. Then I'd stick a couple of the remaining drives on the motherboard and with whatever is left over build another computer.

techfuzz

i actually need all that space on 1 computer

I'm assuming you don't need them for some RAID setup...
Are we talking 5 40GB hard drives? Why not sell them and get a bigger hard drive...

Or, why not back the data up to a couple of dvd's then delete it from the hard drives?

Either way, sounds like my computer.. I'm never ambitous enough to try to eliminate space... I just add hard drives.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: techfuzz
IMO, you'll want the bootable hard drive and the DVD burner on the motherboard for the best performance. Then I'd stick a couple of the remaining drives on the motherboard and with whatever is left over build another computer.

techfuzz

i actually need all that space on 1 computer

I'm assuming you don't need them for some RAID setup...
Are we talking 5 40GB hard drives? Why not sell them and get a bigger hard drive...

Or, why not back the data up to a couple of dvd's then delete it from the hard drives?

Either way, sounds like my computer.. I'm never ambitous enough to try to eliminate space... I just add hard drives.

2 40 gig HDs
1 80 gig
1 120 gig
1 160 gig

image/video editing need large storage and backup