Master and Slave Hard Disks

[Marcus (2)]

Hello,

Are there any performance issues when connecting 2 hard drives on one IDE connector ??

I have nearly given up on the highpoint controller on my BE7, I also tried a Promise controller card but this caused stuttering problems with my mouse and sound. I have ordered a new backup drive Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 9, I will try this drive on a highpoint connector first but if I get any problems then I will slave the the drive to my main Western Digital 8MB Cache drive on IDE 1.

I just wondered will a slave drive affect performance on my main drive, I would expect that if I was copying from one drive to another drive the performance would not be as good as if I had both drives on seperate connectors ??

Any one have any advise on this before I take delivery of the new drive.

Thanks

Marcus

 

[TomG]

why have you given up on the Highpoint? there's nothing wrong with the Highpoint 370/372 controller...

 

[Marcus (2)]

Hello Tom,

I have given up on it because I've had 6 months of lock up's and Data corruption, I've reinstalled/repaired Windows XP 2-3 times a week. Since putting my hard drive on IDE 1 I've not had one lockup.

My hard drive is a western digital drive, they have replaced it twice so I'm on my 3rd drive but I still get the problems, it's either a faultly highpoint controller on the motherboard or my hard drive is not compatible with it.

To be honest I cannot notice my computer being any slower on IDE 1 than IDE 3, my benchmarks are the same on both controllers so for an easy life I'm gonna keep my main boot ide on IDE 1. I intend to use IDE 3 for a new back up hard drive which I have just ordered, I have gone for a Maxdor 8MB cache drive so we'll see how that gets on.

Marcus

"TomG" wrote:

why have you given up on the Highpoint? there's nothing wrong with the Highpoint 370/372 controller...

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... IDE connector ??

I have nearly given up on the highpoint controller on my BE7, I also tried a
Promise controller card but this caused stuttering problems with my mouse and sound. I have ordered a new backup drive Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 9, I will try this drive on a highpoint connector first but if I get any problems
then I will slave the the drive to my main Western Digital 8MB Cache drive on IDE 1.

I just wondered will a slave drive affect performance on my main drive, I would expect that if I was copying from one drive to another drive the
performance would not be as good as if I had both drives on seperate
connectors ??

Any one have any advise on this before I take delivery of the new drive.

Thanks

Marcus

 

[TomG]

roger that...