- Joined
- Aug 31, 2004
O.K. If I put my video games on my Slave hard drive, will they run slower then being on my Master hard drive? Please answer this, and thanks in advance.
-
Welcome to Overclockers Forums! Join us to reply in threads, receive reduced ads, and to customize your site experience!
Easy question, please help
- Thread starter darthanakin23
- Start date
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2003
- Location
- Toronto Canada
no difference between master or slave, unless they slave is a faster drive.
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2003
- Location
- Toronto Canada
difference would hardly be noticable. If the harddrive is close to full then there is a performance decrease.
- Joined
- Jul 21, 2003
- Location
- Delta Quadrant....UK Bedfordshire
Hi,
So let me get this straight. i have an old hitatchi HD 5400rpm blah blah. if i buy a faster HD i could keep my OS on the hitatchi and just use the quicker one for games?
Regards
So let me get this straight. i have an old hitatchi HD 5400rpm blah blah. if i buy a faster HD i could keep my OS on the hitatchi and just use the quicker one for games?
Regards
- Joined
- May 7, 2004
- Location
- Eastern Pennsylvania
I would not put 2 drives of different speeds on the same channel. I once had a ATA66 drive with a brand new ATA100 and both drive lagged several seconds while access data on the older one. The whole computer hiccuped. If you can I would put the different speed drives on different channels.
JT
JT
- Joined
- Jul 21, 2003
- Location
- Delta Quadrant....UK Bedfordshire
i see. so if idid just get a new Hd for games i take it that i would have to format it first?
I beieve that IDE drives will run at the slower speed if 2 drives of different speeds are connected to one computer. I don't know about SATA drives, but if you have a 7200rpm and a 5400rpm drive in the same computer, the speed will reset to 5400rpm.
Similar threads
