Hard Drives and DVD Drive on same cable.

Alex53

Alex53

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I currently have two hard disks and two DVD drives on my dekstop PC. I could do with more storage, and dont really need the DVD-ROM as I never copy disks on-the-fly, so just the DVD rewriter will do.

One doubt though is, which type of IDE cable do I use to have a hard disk and a DVD drive on the same cable? I've always been told to keep them separate where possible, hard drives on one IDE cable and CD/DVD drives on the other, but if you want three hard disks there's no choice but mixing them. Any proper way of doing this or am I going to encounter problems?
 
Your board doesn't have SATA I take it? Just wondering as many, many boards have SATA now and you'd be hard pressed to have a recent system without it, which would save you the trouble of messing about with ribbon cables :)
 
Probably. In fact, I'm pretty sure. Too late though, I ordered an IDE hard disk :/

(Worst come to worst, if you really cant mix hard disks and dvd drives, I can stick it in the external netgear network storage which holds two disks and only has one now, and buy an SATA next month, but that storage in itself was a bad buy, very slow and uses its own file system your computers need drivers for. But that would cost me another ~£100 for extra storage I dont need.)
 
You can mix them fine, just some people recon that you get slow down etc. on the hard drives I have used mixed many times, no slow down or anything. Don't see what you are worrying about. :)
 
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