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IDE arangement

  • 11-04-2005 7:04am
    #1
    pickarooney
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    Can anyone answer me definitevely what's the best way to arrange two hard drives (both 7200rpm, one 200GB, one 80GB), a cd/DVD combo drive and a DVD burner on a standard 2-channel IDE configuration to get the best speeds when copying/moving files?


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  • #2
    Random
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    As far as I know it depends where you're copying/moving files to/from.

    Best have each of the devices being used most on separate channels from what I hear :)


  • #3
    stevenmu
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    Yes, put your drive with the OS on the primary IDE as master, then just work out a configuration so that most of your copying will be done from one channel to another. e.g. if you're not going to be copying between hard drives very often but both on primary and both your optical drives on secondary, this'll give you best speed copying between either hard disk and either optical drive.


  • #4
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,738 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    OK, sounds like a sensible suggestion. I'll most likely be doing more burning/retrieving between HD and CD/DVD so might as well leave them as tehy are with both HDs on the primary IDE and the CD/DVD drives on secondary.

    What other factors effect the speed of copying? For instance, to copy 10 GB of data from one HD to another, on the same IDE channel, how long should it take, roughly, on a 1.2GHz machine with 768MB of RAM compared with a similar transfer on a high-end machine (let's say 3GHz, 1GB of RAM and a SATA interface)? It takes me the guts of 20 minutes with the lower configuration.


  • #5
    jor el
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    I would put the two hard disks on the primary controller as master and slave, use the main OS disk as master.

    Then put the DVD writer as secondary master and the CD/DVD combo as secondary slave.

    Since the DVD writer will be used to write the largest amount of data in any one time then it should really be master so as to write large amounts in the fastest possible time. Also I assume you would be writing the DVDs from one of the hard disks and these are on a seperate controller so that should also optimise transfer rates.

    You may run into trouble if copying a CD directly from the combo to the DVD writer. However, I always recommend you take an image of any disc you're copying as it's a more reliable method than direct disc to disc copying.


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