Hard Drive, Optical Drive, Mobo Question

[jlauer]

Ok, here goes...

I have 3 hard drives and 2 optical drives...

I need to put them all into a new system.

If I go with the Gigabyte GA-8KNXP Mobo I will have no problems, it has support for 8 IDE Channels

If I go with the Abit IC7-Max3 Mobo I will have to pop in my old PROMISE ULTRA66 Controller.
If I do that I will be putting only the optical drives on the PROMISE Controller, the Hard Drives will all go on the ONBOARD IDE Controllers.


My question is this. If i use the PROMISE ULTRA66 with the IC7-Max3 how will it effect performance of the optical drives?
(The optical drives are a Plextor PX-708A 8X DVD+/-RW and a Pioneer DVD-120S.)


I do alot of CD and DVD Ripping and Burning.

 

[sjonnie]

It won't, ATAPI devices operate in ATA33 mode at the maximum.

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[jlauer]

I guess i was not refering to the native transfer rate as i was refering to the fact that the ULTRA66 controller would not be ONboard but rather stuck in a PCI slot... would that cause any performace issues when ripping DVD or CD...

 

[sjonnie]

No, none. Your onboard controller is connected into the same PCI bus.

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[Crashman]

Your PCI slot supports 133MB/s. Your card supports 66MB/s. Your optical drives support less than 10MB/s. Performance of these drives therefore won't be affected.

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[Crashman]

Oh, I should also add that the additional controller on the Gigabyte board is also a PCI device, the same as your add in card (only ATA133 instead of ATA66, which makes no difference on optical drives).

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