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In a RAID setup with both of the RAID drives being ATA 100/7200 rpm, is the speed of the drive containing the OS and apps critical? Would performance suffer greatly if a 5400rpm/DMA33 drive was used for the recording app?


Also, regarding drive positions, I understand the speed of an IDE channel is determined by the slowest device. so you would want your HDD as primary master, and your cd drive and cd burner on the secondary IDE channel.

However, I also read that installing the source device and the destination device on the same channel can cause problems when burning cds ie: a bottleneck due to data flowing in both directions. So with those two points in mind, what would be the lesser of two evils if you also want to be able to copy cds? CD drive as primary slave, or secondary slave?


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The speed of the HDD containing the OS and recording app is (virtually) irrelevant to the recording performance if you record to another disc or RAID array.

If you have the RAID array for recording, I would suggest putting the CD player on the secondary channel and the burner on the primary. This way, you'll have the CD devices separated and you'll also have the CD player and apps HDD separated, which may help the speed when installing apps. I doubt that there'll be any significant difference though.

/Ola
 
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