2008/6/28 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi list! > > I've got a little question. Here I've got a PC with two 40GB hard > disks, a CD-burner and a DVD-burner, all PATA. Now I'm running out of > disk space and I'm thinking about ways to increase it: > > 1. I could replace the older 40GB disk with a new model but I'd hate to > trash it because it's working alright. > > 2. I could replace the really old and rather useless CD-burner with a > disk. However, that would mean I'd have to attach the DVD-burner and > one of the disks to the same controller. Now I'm asking myself (and > you ;) ) how that would affect performance. Would it cause problems > when both devices exchange data, for example when burning or ripping a > DVD? Could I still watch a DVD while, for example, making a backup to > or from that HDD? > > Thanks in advance! > > Florian Philipp >
Hi Florian! My pc has one disk and the DVD burner in the same port. The disk is where I have my Gentoo, and I can update my system while watching movies with my DVD. So do not worry about performance, as you said, the disk is faster than any DVD/CD that you could have. The only way to experience some slightly performance drop is having two disks in the same controller. I do not know where you live, but here, in Argentina, is very difficult to find a new PATA disk. Every computer store only has SATA drives and maybe a couple of 80-160GB PATA disks. Hope this helps you. Regards, Ricardo. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
