Connecting on Board and Raid... efficiency?

[Cyan]

Is it better to have one HD hooked into the onboard slot and the other in the Raid slot? or to make them both share the cable and stay in the onboard slot?

Same question goes for CD-RW and DVD-CD Player

[Dave Myers]

In terms of data transfer rate for non-arraied HDs (meaning not in a RAID sequence) there shouldn't be any difference. I am assuming that you have the same dma speed (33/66/100) for your RAID as you do for the main EIDE. I am also assuming that this is your slave drive, not your master. I have experience with upgrading OS and failing to detect a HD on a RAID connection.

Bottom line, it shouldn't make a tangable lick of difference if you have your drives on the same cable or on different cables. Don't take my word for it. Try accessing files from both HDs in both configurations. See if you notice a difference in performance.

PEACE


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[Grentarc]

here is a thing to try if you have two cdrom drives and two hard drives.....
copy two files of equal siz (pref. >100mb) to each hard drive from each cdrom at the same time, with the two optical drives on one IDE channel, and the two HDD on another. Then rearrange the drives so that each cdrom/HDD is on seperate ide channels and do the same thing... see if there is a speed difference.

If ya can understand this.. goodluck!

[Cyan]

... I'm too lazy...

I dont want to actually try anything...

Since there is lower latency on an onboard than there is on a Raid... I was wondering if there would be MORE latency by having two hard drives hooked up (on board) sharing the same ribbon cable.