Optimal Drive Configuration-optical and hard

[Needtoknow]

Hello,
The IT guy at the place I work has slaved the optical drive to the hard drive on most of the boxes.
I really thought that was a no-no because they run at different speeds or some such, but now I have encountered folks here, at various times, saying it's okay.
What's the "truth"?
Thanks

[Kov-Ice]

The truth is what people 'perceive' to be the truth... Well, that's what an old college professor used to tell our classes all the time anyways.

I've heard more often that it's a good idea to keep optical drives on a separate channel from HDDs. I think it can be done either way, it's just that you'll encounter less problems by avoiding the mismatch.

[Blakhart]

If there's only two drives, one optical and the other hdd, separate channels are the way to fly.

[ktkendall]

Originally posted by Kov-Ice The truth is what people 'perceive' to be the truth... Well, that's what an old college professor used to tell our classes all the time anyways.

I like to tell anyone that says there is no absolute truth that must mean that isn't true either... It is ashamed that a college professor who is supposed to be so wise and learned would buy into something like that. Even my 6 year old knows that something is either true or it isn't and that there is truth to be found out there. Even into the realms of creation, whatever the source, God, Big Bang, Evolution, there is a truth as to how it all began, how we got here and where we are going, and just because I believe a certain way does not make it true, I'm just banking upon that what I do believe IS the truth....

[not important]

Originally posted by ktkendall I'm just banking upon that what I do believe IS the truth....

I believe that would validate the college professor's statement?
What you believe is what you perceive to be true.

[ktkendall]

No that wouldn't because his statement is that the truth is whatever people perceive the truth to be, and my point is that truth is not dependant upon what people believe it to be. The truth IS the truth, regardless of what I believe, and I am just quite certain that what I do believe does happen to be the truth as far as the universe and creation is concerned, but as stated just because I believe it does not make it true. I could be believeing something that is not the truth and that does not make it true...

[Kov-Ice]

Hehe, I think I started something quite inadvertenly here. I never said 'I' bought the old coot's statement, just thought it was entertaining.

kt, when we're talking absolute truth, there's no doubt that exists, and I'm banking on it too. I think ol' Dr. Whateverisnamewuz applied that statement more to the fact that once a person believes something to be true, there's not much chance of changing that perception, no matter how flawed.

We're a bit off track, so probably the whole bottom half of this thread should be pasted into another forum entirely!

Kov

[ktkendall]

Yes sorry about that, I really turned this into something we could continue over in general discussion....
So in conclusion I do believe it is much better to keep your harddrives seperate from the optical drives on seperate channels...

[glc]

It's "better", yes - but the presence of an optical drive on the same channel as the hard drive will not slow the hard drive down - it USED to in the Win 3.x days but Windows 95 eliminated that issue with the 32 bit protected driver structure. The only issue that still remains is the "one way" IDE bus, transferring data from one device to the other on the same cable will be slower than if the 2 devices are separate. For a general use office machine, it doesn't make any difference and if it's easier to use only one channel for whatever reason, it's a nonissue.

[ktkendall]

So you see, that just because I believe something to be true, does not necessarily make it true...

[Needtoknow]

So the "truth" in this question is it doesn't matter(in this instance) as it pertains to hard drives and opticals.
As for the rest of it...
“We seek the truth, and will endure the consequences” (Charles Seymour).
or perhaps,“beliefs that were accepted as eternal verities” (James Harvey Robinson),
or finally."You can't handle the truth."(Jack Nicholson).
Thanks glc, and everyone else.

[Kov-Ice]

I'm quoting the original Latin here, "In PCMech veritas."

[Blakhart]

Truth generaly is the most dangerous thing, and posession of it normaly gets one killed.