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Adding 2nd hard drive

  • 05-04-2006 9:23am
    #1
    ionapaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭


    Hey folks,

    finally getting around to adding a 2nd IDE Hard Drive that I've had in an unopened box for almost a year! I have grabbed a suitable ribbon cable from work, but was wondering what is the correct cabling arrangment, given the following scenario:

    The main hard drive and the CD-RW drive are currently on the same ribbon, with the CD-RW drive designated as the slave drive
    The spare ribbon I have just taken has only one connection
    My motherboard has an additional controller slot free

    So should I just use the spare ribbon to connect the new hard drive to the spare controller slot, or replace the CD-RW drive with the new hard drive as the slave on the existing ribbon and use the spare ribbon to connect the CD-RW drive to the spare controller slot...! Or does it matter at all?


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  • #2
    Blub2k4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭Blub2k4


    It depends on what you want to do.
    Personally I would swap the cables and put the main hard drive by itself on the primary IDE with no slave and then put the second hard drive on the double headed cable as master with the cdrw as slave.
    That should be the best performance as at the moment the bus of the main hdd is disrupted each time you query the cd drive and you would have a hit when both are being used together.
    <edit>sharing the cable means that they share bus time and this does matter, it just depends on how much it bothers you because you are already in this situation with sharing the cable and not using the other one at all, I'd still change it and you should see a difference in performance.


  • #3
    Stacksey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭Stacksey


    yeah make the new Hard drive a slave on the primary controller and make the CDRom drive a master on the secondary controller, also with Win 2000/xp you make the new drive a dynamic disk within disk management and implement disk mirroring/stripping


  • #4
    Sch!Sm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭Sch!Sm


    I have a master and slave on one cable, do you think they would operate faster if i put each as a master on their own cables with say optical drives as slaves?


  • #5
    Blowfish
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    Sch!Sm wrote:
    I have a master and slave on one cable, do you think they would operate faster if i put each as a master on their own cables with say optical drives as slaves?
    Yes, although it would be best to put the most used IDE (the one with the OS on it) as master on its own if possible, if not put it with the least used optical drive


  • #6
    ionapaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭ionapaul


    Thanks lads, gonna do what Blub2k4 and Blowfish suggest.


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  • #7
    Blub2k4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭Blub2k4


    Stacksey wrote:
    yeah make the new Hard drive a slave on the primary controller and make the CDRom drive a master on the secondary controller, also with Win 2000/xp you make the new drive a dynamic disk within disk management and implement disk mirroring/stripping

    Why complicate it with IDE raid?<edit> mirroring would mean he would have almost zero extra capacity from his extra drive, I dont see where he said he needs a highly available and secure solution.
    Simplest way is just to do as I said with the primary drive on it's own cable and the secondary and tertiary sharing a cable.


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