CD & DVD burner on Primary/Secondary Master IDE channel

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I highly doubt this matters much, but if you had a CD burner and a DVD
burner, which would you put on the Primary Master and Secondary Master? I'm
considering installing these in a test machine I have and plan to install
the DVD burner on the Primary Master and the CD burner on the Secondary
Master.

@drian.
 
Doesn't matter much, except that some motherboard BIOSes will only see the
drive hooked up to the primary as the bootable optical drive and assign it
the lower drive letter, so you might want to decide which of the two drives
you'd like to be the default boot drive. Personally, I'd make the less
expensive of the 2 drives the boot drive, and also use it for the main
reading/installing drive (probably the CD burner), since the bulk of the
wear and tear will occur on the more economically replaceable drive. Most
newer CD burners also have faster read speeds than their DVD burner
counterparts, making installations from CD just a tad faster.

Either way though, the individual drives' performances will be identical no
matter where you hook them up.
Russell
http://tastycomputers.com
 
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