Question on using 2 hard drives.

[HawaiianGuy]

I have the 2 hard drives listed below. I read in the HDD FAQ that putting 2 hard drives on one cable can slow things down a little.

If I put both of them on IDE 1 how much slower would it be than if I just used 1 hd on they cable and also which would you use as master and which as the slave.

Mahalo (Thank you)

Seagate 200GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive - ST3200822A
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Technical Information:

Capacity 200 GB
Interface DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra)
Rotational Speed 7200 rpm
Access Time 8.5 ms
Type of Drive Internal
Cache Size: 8 MB
System Type PC
Cylinders 16383
Average Latency 4.16 ms

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Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive - 6Y200P0
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Technical Information:

Capacity: 200 GB
Interface: DMA/ATA-133 (Ultra) Fast Drives
Rotational Speed: 7200 Rpm
Access Time: 9.4 ms
Type of Drive: Internal
Cache Size: 8 MB
System Type: PC
Cylinders: 16383
Average Latency: 4.2 ms

Aloha from Oahu

 

[silverpig]

You'll only notice a difference if you are trying to access both drives at the same time. So your write speed from one disk to the other, write to both disks at once, and read from both disks at once will be affected. Other than that you shouldn't notice any difference.

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[hogfather]

So if someone was to set it in RAID 0 on same ide cable, you'd see a hit? Cos both would be accessed all the time? (stripping?)

XP2000, 512 ddr 2700ram, GF4 MX440, XP Pro

 

[HawaiianGuy]

Ok, thanks. I went back and read the FAQ again and saw about accessing both drives at the same time, missed that for some reason.

So either one as master should be ok ?.

Aloha from Oahu