optimal harddrive config for music production syst

[Guest]

I use this system for music production, and I am wondering about config for HD's.

I have
Asus P4B266
512 DDR PC100
2X Western Digital 7200 40 gig drivesATA100
Promise TX2 controller card(no raid) ATA133(for current & future drives)
Matrox G550 dual head
Plextor 24/10/40 Ide CDRW
Sony CDR
removable drive bay for swapping the audio file drives( I think this is
only ATA 66/100 rated)

I am wondering what would be the best setup for my hardrives & drive bay?,
either on the controller card? or on the onboard controller?

I use one drive for OS/APPS, and one for audio files

Please give me your thoughts.

I was thinking about this:
onboard primary master(CDRW)
onboard primary secondary(CDR)
Promise controller master(OS/APPS)
Promise controller secondary(Audio files)
Promise controller secondary slave(removable drive bay)

or should I keep my OS drive as onboard master.
Will I see a performance hit, as far as the PCI traffic, if all my drives are
on the controller card?

Any and all thoughts welcome

JT

 

[Lars_Coleman]

That setup looks fine to me!

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[vetplus40]

I was told some time back that having the cd & cdrw,on the same cable might cause a data slowdown when copying disk to disk......just thought I'd mention it......

If ya don't ask..How ya gonna know.

 

[wapaaga]

yes it will becuse ata spec only allow one item to send or recive data at a time. this was a big problem back when burn prof was not around. becuase the major problem that htis caused was buffer under run

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