RE: 2 hard drives



On 12/04/2006 tfw48079 <tfw48079@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would put both HD on the primary IDE.

"KevinG" wrote:

Hi all,

I have recently bought a new hard drive and was wondering what was the best
set-up to have my 2 drives and 2 optical drives, for example, both HD
attached to the primary IDE channel (1 master and 1slave) or 1 HD on each
seperate channel (HD as master and optical as slave)?

Thanks in advance for advice.

Primary IDE on a lot of motherboards are usually the faster of the two IDE
ports. Since you want the hard drives to be on the fastest connection
possible, place them on the primary one.

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