Peabody <waybackKILLSPAM44@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>As you say, the drives are the WD800JB and WD2000BB.
>Looking at the specs on wdc.com, the only difference, other
>than the cache size is:
>
>Data Transfer Rate - Buffer to Disk:
>
>WD800JB - 602 mbps maximum
>WD2000BB - 736 mbps maximum
>
>I assume that's just from the higher density on the big
>drive. Anyway, that might be offset by the bigger buffer on
>the JB. In any case, I'm not sure I would notice the
>difference in performance, but certainly would notice the
>difference in noise.
>
>I need to put both of these on the same IDE controller. The
>other controller has the DVD burner and the CD-Rom drive,
>which I don't think I should mix with hard drives.
>Please let me know if you see any problem with this setup.
>

No real problems in configuring your drives as you have indicated.

There might be some slight performance advantage under some
circumstances, such as when simultaneously using files from both hard
drives, if you put the two hard drives onto separate IDE channels as
master drives, with the DVD burner as slave on one channel and the
CDROM as slave on the other.

However the geometry of most computer cases is such that this
configuration would likely cause problems in getting the data cables
to fit, so your proposed setup is probably the optimal choice. It is,
in fact, the way that I have my own computer setup, except that I am
currently without a second hard drive (it died).

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
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