I know the standard way to hook up a hard drive is to hook it up to #1 and the dvd to #2. I have a hard drive and 2 dvd drives. I talked to someone and they said the fastest way for the setup to work is to set the hard drive to #1 as master and the dvd rom to #1 as slave. Then hook up the dvd rw to #2 as master. What is your take on this? What does it do for the computer? Thanks.
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Jump to PostDepends on what interface (if that is the word) the drives are.
S-ATA drives I have heard to be faster, but can only have one device per channel. Hence HD on #1 DVD on #2 DVD2 on #3
EIDE drives can have master/slave on a channel but IMHO seem …
Jump to PostIf they are are standard PATA drives (IDE), then I would recommend that you do not put an optical drive and a hard drive on the same channel. They use different transfer protocols and so performance would be lower as a result. Make the hard drive master on channel #1 …
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