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Kookstick
03-13-2004, 01:47 PM
I am going to buy a WD 8mb buffer HDD but I want to leave the older seagate in there for mp3 storage and backup. Will any performance be lost by having the 2 together? They will be in their own cable and not daisy chained together. Is there a big performance difference between ata 66 and 100? Thanks
bassman
03-13-2004, 02:05 PM
If they are both in DMA mode, the only performance loss that will occur will be when you transfer files between them.
Peter M
03-13-2004, 02:29 PM
... and that only if they are on the same IDE cable. But that's a generic IDE limitation anyhow - drives on the same cable cannot be accessed simultaneously, bandwidth cannot be shared, unlike on SCSI.
bassman
03-14-2004, 01:13 PM
They will be in their own cable
Ops, sorry, I misunderstood your post; like Peter said, they won't bother eachother :t