Slowing down my sytem?

[BliZzZarD]

I just bought a new mb(ASUS M2N-E) and a cpu(A64 X2 4600+) with 2Gbs of ram. I have 2 sata HD drives installed.

Didn't check for this... the MB only comes with one ide port. So I am having to use it for my dvd burner.

Question is ... I have an extra ide 120gb HD I would like to use for storage using an Ata IDE card and plug the hd into it. Would that slow down my system?

 

[Roguestar]

It'll be another link in the chain, so why not stick your DVD drive on the PCI IDE card and plug the hard drive straight into the motherboard?

 

[BliZzZarD]

I guess I worry about it messing up my burns. If that makes sense

 

[TeejayV]

i too have this motherboard, and i too have a 250gb IDE drive lying around that i would like to use. How exactly do i plug that into my system? i'm not sure what type of adapter that i would use to convert an IDE drive to an SATA port (is that even possible?)

i was looking at this here, i'm not sure if this is the one i would use, any advice?

http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=012799&cid=IO.524

 

[Roguestar]

Why not just plug in both? Two ports on one IDE ribbon; set the hard drive as master and the DVD as slave. Problem solved?

TeejayV: Just plug it in, there is an IDE port for it. Unless you have 3 IDE (PATA) drives you're not stuck with adaptors.

 

[TeejayV]

ok, i think i get it.
I have one 80gb SATA drive, and 1 DVDR IDE drive. I guess i could always add in the other IDE drive to the same ribbon as the DVD drive. Thank you!

 

[BliZzZarD]

Well actually i had 2 burners ... I can get rid of the extra burner... Does having the burner attached to the same ide port with the hd slow it down?

 

[Roguestar]

Nope.

 

[BliZzZarD]

Well thx alot Roguestar... Very helpful

 

[Scarpozzi]

There used to be a lot of problems with CD burners, but the true bottleneck was memory, processor, and the IDE bus. Now, the bus speed is so much faster that the burner probably can't burn fast enough for you to see a significant slowdown. Furthermore, you probably won't be burning all the time so you shouldn't notice any system resources drained unless you're mid-burn and trying to do something else like watch a streaming video.

 

[BliZzZarD]

ok does it matter if its master hd then slave burner or master burner and slave hd

 

[Roguestar]

Probably best to just leave it HD master burner slave.