Speed up hard drive?

[tonymac]

I have to have a second device on my ide channel sharing with the hard drive. Would it be enough to disable the second in device manager and leave the hard drive technically on its own to increase speed while capturing, or do I have to physically detach the ide ribbon ?

[Nelson37]

Nice try, but no dice, Power to drive has to be off, and then you may have to change a jumper on the primary.

[Nelson37]

Or you could detach the ribbon, AND change the jumper (if needed), that would work, too. It is possible to have an external power switch for a drive, and if your primary drive has the same setting for master and stand-alone, that would work though you would have to reboot to re-recognize the drive, except maybe W2K.

[aznguy]

I don't think it matters, because in todays computer technology Hard Drive is the main Bottleneck... by unplugging your other device won't speed up your Hard drive. But maybe I'm wrong.

[Nelson37]

If the other device is anything but an identical hard drive, or at least one with matching performance, this definitely will speed up performance, which is set to the level of the slowest device on the cable.