hardware setup help

[kingv2002]

Ok..here's my setup, i want to know where i should put the HDs and CD/DVD drives....which IDE channel and master or slave.


ECS K7S5A mobo
AMD XP 1600+ CPU
512MB DDR
Maxtor 60GB IDE 7200rpm
Western Digital 40GB IDE 7200rpm
Pioneer A04- DVD-RW
Mitsumi 8404TE - CDRW
ATI All in Wonder Radeon 7500
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz


Currently:
Maxtor - IDE channel 1, Master
DVD-RW - IDE channel 2, master
CDRW - IDE channel 2, slave

I just bought the WD. So when I get help here, i'll install it.
How should it be for best Huffy/PCM Captures?
as a master or a slave?

actually, the 60GB will be my capturing drive
and the 40gb my OS/games/etc drive.

help?

thanks

[Mavrick]

You want to keep the fast Hard Drives together, and the slower DVD/CD driver together. Do not hook a Hard Drive and CD on the same controller.

[thxkid]

well thats ok, as long as you don't plan to copy much from DVD to CD-Rom or CD to DVD-Rom, then you could run into some problems since those drives are on the same controller and they have to stream from that controller back to the motherboard then back to the drives.
I would sugest using removable bays and having 2 drives that you can pop in an out, I have 3 I do like this, One for Games, one for Video and one just for kicking around trying stuff out on, then you could have the hard drives as master 1, CD Slave 1 and DVD rom Master2, then Partition each hard drive into 2 partitions, say 10 gigs for system and programs then 30 gigs for your downloading and video capturing, on the other same thing 10 gigs for system and 50 gigs for downloading and video capturing, that way if you ever screw one up you always have a 2nd drive you can use, also if something happens on "D" partition you just reformat that drive without having to rebuild the entire system, plus its easier on defraging also. Plus it gives you the posibility to be doing 2 different jobs at the same time. Plus you could also run 2 different operating systems on them or different setups, say XP on one and Linux or Win98se on another without having to have to worry about dual bootup.
Removable bays are cheap, $20 for the main unit and $10 for aech add-on. Plus then you could add another Hard drive later say a 120 gig once come down.

[NeVeRLiFt]

What kind of question is this?
Man if your this big of a n00bie maybe you need to get back under the porch.