Set up for Two Hard Drives with different RPM's

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JackDiesel

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I have two hard drives installed in my computer, a 150 Gig main drive and a 750 Gig storage drive. My main drive has a faster RPM than the storage drive. I think my storage drive is slowing down my main drive because they are set up on the same channel. They both work fine but I can't help but feel my setup isn't correct.

My BIOS is as follows:

IDE Channel 0 Master: 150 (10,000 RPM)
IDE Channel 0 Slave: 750 (7,200 RPM)
IDE Channel 1 Master: DVD Drive
IDE Channel 1 Slave: Open
IDE Channel 2 Master: Open
IDE Channel 3 Master: Open

Is this right or did I do something wrong?
 
My first thought it you have a 750GB drive that isn't SATA?

Assuming they are both PATA, the only time a drive will get 'slowed' down is when it has to wait for the slower drive to finish talking on the channel. That said, from the look of it you should be able to move one to you're 3rd channel.
 
Cromewell said:
My first thought it you have a 750GB drive that isn't SATA?

Assuming they are both PATA, the only time a drive will get 'slowed' down is when it has to wait for the slower drive to finish talking on the channel. That said, from the look of it you should be able to move one to you're 3rd channel.
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They are both SATA, at least that's how they are plugged into my mobo. For some reason my BIOS label's all my channel's as IDE. I thought it was weird too but all my connections are SATA so I figured it was just something quirky with the BIOS.
 
They are labelled IDE because SATA is just IDE converted to a Serial connection, and the SATA mode in the BIOS is set to IDE Emulation. the other mode is called AHCI, and it mostly causes issues for normal users.

Then there's RAID, and that's a whole other story.
 
JackDiesel said:
They are both SATA, at least that's how they are plugged into my mobo. For some reason my BIOS label's all my channel's as IDE. I thought it was weird too but all my connections are SATA so I figured it was just something quirky with the BIOS.
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In that case, you're fine. Each drive has it's own connection to the controller and won't be slowed down by the other.
 
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