Will IDE Hard Disk Slow down my Burner?

Hi

I've got an IDE burner on the only IDE channel on my mobo. I have an ata 133 hard disk from my old pc which I would like to use in this one. My main disk is a 250gb sata. I would like to use the IDE disk for general storage and accessing activities, but I'll mainly be accessing the sata disk as no programs or system stuff will be written to the IDE, just things like movies and mp3's stored there and played from there.

My question is, can I stick the hard disk on the same channel as my burner (in slave mode) and still have my burner funtion at it's optimum best? Obviously I will not read or write to the drive when I am burning disks.

Thanks!

 

as long as you are not accessing or writing to the other drive on the IDE chain then your optical drive will function the exact same as if it were the only drive attached.

 

it wont slow u down, but if u want faster burring go for SATA burners; they're SUPER fast.

 

Thanks very much.

That's what I wanted to hear!

 

In regards to the sata burner comment, I already debated whether to get sata or IDE burner and the vast majority of people advised that I get IDE. Their reasons were that IDE is better supported for the time being, that sata does not offer a significant speed advantage over IDE for optical drives, in fact most said it offers no speed increase whatsoever and the main advantage is that the cable is smaller and easier to connect and disconnect. Also some people had heard of problems installing windows on them (obviously you would need to do an F6 at boot to install the sata drivers, but you would need a floppy drive, or an IDE optical drive anyway to do this, and if you have sata driver problems you could be stuck).

Care to comment on this?

 

SUP, i don't see how burner drives could have little speed increases considering the fact that SATA has 150m/s to 300m/s compared to PATA which is only 133m/s. you'd think that the SATA would be faster...right? Or are they (SATA) faster only when your hard drive is SATA too, so there is no bottle neck between the two. right? or am i missing anything?

thanx

 

SATA vs IDE is really a mute point when it comes to optical drives...the data read and written to DVD and CD drives doesn't come anywhere near the max data flow of EITHER IDE ATA133 or SATA...do it really doesn't matter for optical drives...only HDs. DVD 16X speed is 21.13 MB/s...way under the max for both types of data channels.

 

Thanks djscoop, I haven't actually had it explained to me as clearly as that yet. And just 2 lines.

 

Ho Snap, thanks man...didn't know that. l8er

 

no problem...as ddp would say, teach & learn