[mythtv-users] Question about SATA/IDE controller cards...

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Brian Phillips <brian.phillips at gmx.net> wrote:
> This might be an issue I'll need to resolve by experimentation, but I
>  thought I'd see if someone else had already figured this out before I invest
>  any time.
>
>  I have an older machine.  I bought a large SATA drive with a PCI controller
>  to add the drive to my system.  The PCI card has an ATA133 slot on it as
>  well.  I was going to put system drive on the motherboards primary IDE, the
>  optical drive on the secondary IDE, and the SATA storage drive on the PCI
>  card.
>
>  I got to thinking about the route this data will take.  I was wondering if I
>  could get better performance if I put the optical drive on the IDE
>  controller on the PCI card.  If the IDE controller and the SATA controller
>  were on the same card and the read and write took place on the PCI card, it
>  would be a noticeably better than putting the optical drive on one of the
>  IDE channels of the motherboard.
>
>  What is the consensus, am I crazy?  Will the datapath stay on (or close to)
>  the PCI card, or will it make no difference which IDE port I use
>  (motherboard/PCI card) for my optical drive?
>
It should not make a big difference being that all pci slots
(including the motherboard ide) share the same 133MB/s PCI bus.

John