hdd buffer question

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:43 pm

I have a maxtor ultra ata/133 250gig 16mb buffer and a maxtor ultra ata/133 60 gig 2mb buffer hard drive. Now, would connecting the 60gig to my 250gig slow the 250gig down because the 60gig has less buffer? I just want to use the 60gig as a storage hard drive, the OS is on the 250gig.

Post by **axbaby** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:52 pm

i would put the drives on different cables..
seems logical but technically i don't know.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:22 pm

Not going to effect anything.. the slower drive will run slower, the faster will run faster..

you can test this by installing 2 of the same game on each drive.. run each one.. watch map load times and such..

Post by **^misantropia^** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:30 pm

Separate them. Read/write operations can block the IDE[1] bus so the other HD can do nothing but idle. Newer drives ought to be a little smarter about it by disconnecting before or after a data transfer or queuing commands internally, but usually they aren't.

[1] ATA actually, IDE is just a marketing term.