I don't know which is faster either. Could be the DVD drive for all I
know. But I don't think the issue here is so much speed as it is
frequency of usage and what two things would benefit most from some
degree of parallelism.
Chuck Norcutt
Jeff Keller wrote:
> The old advice was to keep the fast hard drives off the same channel as the
> slow CDs. I have no idea what is actually faster.
>
> I have a disk controller card in my system so that I can run disks larger
> than 120G. I haven't noticed a change in speed either way since putting it
> in.
>
> Good luck sorting it out,
> -jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Chuck Norcutt
>
> snip
>
> ..I'd recommend that you place one hard drive on each of the controllers
> and use the second channel on each to support your CD and DVD drives which
> are less likely to be running in parallel with both drives. You may be able
> to configure the optical drives such that they're on a controller opposite
> from the hard drive that is most likely to be operating at the time. eg;
> burning back up images from drive X to CD.
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