Optical Drives

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by harry, Oct 28, 2006.

  1. harry

    harry Private "Bad" Joker

    Hi,
    Sorry but I`m having a senior moment!!

    Basically its this-- my hdd is sata, which means my two optical drives are running on ide channel 2, as master and slave, leaving ide channel 1 un-occupied.
    My question is would my optical drives benefit from being connected to individual ide channels?

    TIA.
    Harry.:confused:
     
    harry, Oct 28, 2006
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  2. Novice

    Novice MajorGeek

    You might see a little performance increase if you do a lot of disk copying>:)
     
    Novice, Oct 28, 2006
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  3. InYearsToCome

    InYearsToCome MajorGeek

    perhaps, but only if you were using them simultaneously (copying a DVD directly to a recordable DVD).

    Even so, i'm pretty sure the read and write speeds of optical drives dont even come close to exceeding the bandwidth of a single IDE channel, so any results would be very minimal. (personally i just wouldnt want the extra cable in there ;-) )
     
    InYearsToCome, Oct 28, 2006
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  4. harry

    harry Private "Bad" Joker

    Thanks for that advice, I guess I will just leave things as they are.

    Thank You.

    Harry
     
    harry, Oct 28, 2006
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