SATA Drives - Optimal Speed & Channel/Master/Slave

[Savage1701]

I am using an Asus P5W64 WS 975X board. It suggests that the boot drive be on one of the 2 master SATA ports (I am using IDE, not Intel Matrix Raid). My question is this: I have a second hard drive that I back up to, copy from the boot drive, etc. Some of these files are large video files. Am I better off having the second storage drive as the "slave" on the SAME IDE channel as my C: drive, or should the second storage drive be the "master" on the second IDE channel? Both run UDMA 6, PIO 4, SATA II, etc.

Thanks for any help.

 

[raybay]

You don't want it on the same channel, as that limits its use.

 

[SNGX1275]

IDE drives are not SATA. SATA does not have any master/slave relationship.

But, ignoring that you said SATA most of the rest of your post makes sense.

Leave the OS drive as is, put your backup drive on a different channel.

 

[Savage1701]

Thanks for the replies. I appreciate your help.