Cable Setup

[Lilmodder]

I know nothing about raid, so here's how I see it:

 

On a gigabyte GA-8IHXP:

 

IDE-1:Cd-RW

 

IDE-2:Cd-ROM

 

Raid-0:Western Digital 80GB

 

Raid-1:Western Digital 40GB

 

Is This Right???

[TiKiGoD]

nope... you need two of the same drives to raid something.... and from your post it looks like you only have one of each drive... but in case you do have two, i'd stripe (RAID 0) the 40 GB and i dunno why you would mirror anything unless you got a server or something but mirror the 80's. Reasong being, that the 40's are gonna have a little faster access time, so they will have better performance.

 

CDROMs are fine

[Lilmodder]

Is raid gonna make that big of a difference?

 

If I'm not gonna go raid, how's this?

 

IDE1-Westerndigital 80 CD-ROM

IDE2-Westerndigital 40 CD-RW

[smeghead009]

BIG NONO do not put your CDroms and Hard Drives in the same channel,

IDE1 - RW(master) and CD-ROM(slave)

IDE2 - 40(master) and 80 (Slave)

 

use your 40gig for your OS and system stuff

and your 80 for all games and pictures/mp3 etc.

[Lilmodder]

Thanks

[mikeock]

if you raid your drives you will lose the space of the bigger drive. You would end up having as ,cuh room as your smallest drive. In this case the 40gig, but times 2, so you would end up with 80 gig.

 

If your motherboard supports plain ide devices on the raid channel do that and give them all their own channel for faster access times.

 

If you have the 2 cd roms on the same ide channel you could have problems doing direct cd copies and that type of thing

[JeepGC96ZJ]

Yeah .. Do not put your CD Roms on the same IDE. Do what you said before.

 

IDE 1+40GB HD+CD Rom

IDE 2+80GB HD+CD-RW

 

this is you best. You will get skips in your burned CDs some times. I use to get a lot of coasters with it set up like that!

 

Good luck