[ninjamyst]

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Originally posted by ninjamyst
Currently, I have a 40gig 7200rpm 2MB(master) and a 160gig 7200rpm 2MB(slave) on my computer. I just bought a 200gig 7200 8MB HD and want to replace the 160gig with it. If both harddrives are on the same IDE channel, will the slower 2MB decrease the performance of the faster 8MB? Given a 40gig 2MB and 200gig 8MB, what's the best possible setup? (I know I asked this a weeks ago but I am still confused as the difference between putting two harddrives on same ide channel vs different ide channel)

I am replacing the slwoer driver with the faster 8mb drive. Currently I have the 40gig as my primary but with a new 8mb one, I am wondering if it will be better to use the 200gig 8mb as primary and set the 40gig as a slave on either the same IDE channel or a different IDE channel