madboy33 Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Hi allI have 2 hdd's and 2 optical drives (a dvd-rw and a cd-rom)Whats the best way to have them set up?What i mean is do you have the 2 HDD's on the same IDE and the 2 optical drives on the other IDE?ORDo you have a HDD then an optical?Is there a correct way and incorrect way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 I have two hdds on one IDE and the two opticals on the other... it works for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 I have two hdds on one IDE and the two opticals on the other... it works for me!Snap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 My limited knowledge says that at the moment HDD's are much faster than opticals. So keep the same speeds on the same IDE. If you mix them then each IDE will run at the lowest common speed. Hope I got that right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvw Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Both my Medions here are set up like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 If you mix them then each IDE will run at the lowest common speed.Spot on ! doug - your knowledge is not as limited as you make out :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted December 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 thanks guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Radfordin Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 Thought it was only older hardware that slowed down the lowest speed device?It is normal to have hard drives on one channel and optical drives on another though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 As long as your boot hard drive is on IDE 1. If not it won't boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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