Hard drives on new DAW

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I'm building a DAW using a ASUS cusl2-c board. In a previous post Ola said that each drive should be on a seperate IDE channel. Does that mean one on the primary ribbon and the other on the secondary ribbon? If that's the case than does each CD drive ( one burner and another CD-R ) go on the two empty spots on the cable? This is my first post, my first DYI computer (and I hope my last for awhile).
 
Exactly!!

You want to split your hard drives up and run them on different IDE interfaces (Primary & Secondary) so that both drives can read and write data simulaniously. If they're connected as master and slave they must share the data bus, each taking a turn, with only one drive active at any time.

Steve
 
Check out the difference when using different channels for your drives at www.tomshardware.com The article is about the performance of an IDE raid, but it shows clearly the difference when using seperate channels. Or use SCSI Ultra320 :)
 
You also benefit from having the two CD devices on different channels if you copy CD's directly. Not that you would ever do that... but in theory, it would be benefitial:)

One last thing to keep in mind is to have the CD-R on the other IDE channel than the one for the HDD where you store the data that you burn to disc.

/Ola
 
Thanks everyone!

Thanks for the help. I really like this site. It's been a great help.
 
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