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osprey4 · May 3rd, 2004, 06:00 PM

I suppose the most obvious question is, why replace the faster drive?

Regarding performance, your proposed setup will be affected but not in a major way. The IDE bus is a bottleneck in that it can only read or write to one device at a time. So in the respect that reading/writing to the slower drive takes longer, this delays any reading/writing to the faster drive. Will you actually notice the difference? Probably not.

May 3rd, 2004, 06:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
osprey4 Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: South Jersey Posts: 8,731	I suppose the most obvious question is, why replace the faster drive? Regarding performance, your proposed setup will be affected but not in a major way. The IDE bus is a bottleneck in that it can only read or write to one device at a time. So in the respect that reading/writing to the slower drive takes longer, this delays any reading/writing to the faster drive. Will you actually notice the difference? Probably not.