Hard drive config?

[cran12]

I currently have 2 hard drives, 1 dvd rom and 1 dvd burner. I bought a WD 160gb drive that came with a pci controller card and set my original 40gb as the master on IDE 1, WD as the slave (disregarding the controller card) and my dvd burner the master on IDE 2 and the rom as slave.
My question is would my video encoding times speed up if I use the card and put the hard drives on separate chanells? What I`m doing is creating slideshow movies with memories on tv and the encode time to the WD is painfully slow.

[ViRaL1]

First, you may want to make sure your mobo supports 48-bit LBA. Otherwise you're going to lose about 20-30GB of storage space. I'd probably recommend keeping the 160GB on the add-in controller for 2 reasons.

1) You know it supports 48-bit LBA and you know you'll get all the storage space you paid for.

2) The add-in card should take some load off the CPU when accessing the 160GB drive.

Overall I think it will end up being faster.

[indolikaa]

I myself would probably put the 160GB drive as master on the PCI controller.

[rallynavvie]

Don't you have two IDE channels on that board? Run your boot from primary master and the ROM on that slave. Put the other hard drive on your secondary master and the burner on that slave. Rip to the big drive, encode to the boot, and write to the burner.