[clue-tech] Help with 2 hard drives on same IDE

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Monday 19 September 2005 03:18 pm, Jeff Schroeder wrote:

> A general rule is to split drives amongst as many IDE interfaces as
> possible-- not really for the reason you're describing here, but for
> performance reasons.  You'll get better throughput if you're not
> sending twice the data (i.e., two drives) down one cable.  Plus, if the
> IDE interface on the motherboard dies for some reason, you won't
> (potentially) hork two drives.

Not only that,  but the way IDE works (as compared to SCSI,  say) it's all 
CPU-driven -- any given operation must complete before any other operation 
can commence,  so there's no overlap,  which means that things take longer on 
the average.  One of the reasons why SCSI is so much faster on otherwise 
comparable drives.

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