Hard Disk configuration, IDE ports, wavs, and projects

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I have read that it's best to record onto another hard drive than the system hard drive. I'm trying to figure out a few more details about this, maybe someone can please help.

Let's assume a C: drive (OS on this drive), a D: drive, and a CDROM drive.

Does this mean that the place that we want to store audio data would be on drive D:?

Should the projects also be stored on drive D:?

What's better, C and D on primary IDE with D as a slave, or C on primary IDE and D and CDROM on secondary IDE with CDROM as slave, or another configuration, or a tossup?
 
You would want the HDs to be on different ribbons/channels as the IDE interface only allows for data transfer with one device on a channel at any given time. This is because each IDE channel only has 1 IRQ. If you had 2 HDs on the same channel, they could not read/write at the same time.
 
To add to what brazilian said, I'd put the C: drive and the CD-ROM on the same IDE channel and the D: drive on it's own channel.
 
So what would make me notice a difference with this type of setup? I currently have my .wav files being created on my C: (system) drive and I don't notice anything not working. The timeline in ProTracksPlus (a version of Sonar) is a teeny stuttery at times, sometimes get a little crackle when adjusting real time effects during playback, but the song never seems to have problems. Are these things that would clear up with the 2 ide setup? Or is this something that would be more apparent when my system needs to cache to C: while I'm recording? In which case a large amount of memory might never see this scenario?
 
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