[dreamtfk]

I am thinking about purchasing a 60gb ide drive to combine with my 40gb which i reaching capacity. Are there negative results to having a slave and master hdd?

[Ridenow]

Nope.

Drives are good

[cypher]

not with both drives on the same ide channel, you can hgave problems with CD/DVD drives when sharing an IDE channel as to which one wants to be slave or master. The fastest setup is to have each drive on its own channel though usually as master and then place your other drives as slaves. Be carefull though not to place a CD burner and the hard drive you are burning from on the same channel.

[dreamtfk]

Well I'm using one of those flat cables that you can connect two drives on.

btw: I heard its better to have all the Windows files on one drive and all the other common stuff (games etc.) on the other drive. True?

[moorcito]

btw: I heard its better to have all the Windows files on one drive and all the other common stuff (games etc.) on the other drive. True?

Yeah, that's supposed to help speed up windows. Since all of the windows stuff is on one drive (and more than likely you won't be changing anything to windows) the drive won't get fragmented as often.

[Disputant]

My own preference is to keep all my files on another drive letter in the unlikely (yeah right) event of a crash. I make all the people that work under and with me do this so when they hose their computers I can just {fdisk c:} and re-image that drive letter. No data loss that way.

The more drives the marrier, just don't lose track of your files.

[WildArmSX]

the only down side to having two HDD on the same chain is that the bus can only support one device talking at a time meaning copy from on hdd to another would be a litle slower. if you can put the new hdd on the secondary chain this would speed up performance when transfering files and etc.

[dreamtfk]

More drives means more power consumption as well correct?

[BaldHeadedDork]

Yeah. But if you have 350W or better you'll be fine.

About putting games and OS on different drives: Don't. You should put your OS and programs that demand optimum performance on the same drive. Your media player, mp3's, mpeg's and everything else can go on your other drive.


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[The_Mowman]

I am running two HDDs and two optical drives on a stock 250W? power supply and have yet to have any problems. As you can see in my sig, i have an 80 gig and a 40 with the faster 80 being the master. I would also recommend a file sync program that will allow you to store important documents and things on both harddrives. And the file sync program will keep trakc of updating which drive has the newest copy of a document and will transfer the files for you instead of copying and pasting all day. Just my 2 cents worth. Oh, and the program I use is called: FileSync version 2.18

[12am]

also do not place a 5400 rpm drive and a 7200rpm drive on the same ide channel, because the 7200 rpm drive will slow down to 5400rpm, I don't know if this is so anymore but it used to be that way.

[dreamtfk]

Originally posted by 12am
also do not place a 5400 rpm drive and a 7200rpm drive on the same ide channel, because the 7200 rpm drive will slow down to 5400rpm, I don't know if this is so anymore but it used to be that way.

Duely noted thx.

[12am]

No prob man, just glad to share the info with ya

[Caffinehog]

Those with multiple hard drives might also consider raid. Raid 0, or striping, will outperform two single drives. Cheap raid controllers can be had for for $35, and good ones, capable of four drives in raid 0, for pci bus-filling bandwidth goodness, can be had for about $100.