re: 3 CD roms How to make work? Friday, June 4, 2004 at 12:51 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by carbo18 (26 messages posted) Althought it is true that two UDMA devices will run at slowest speed on the same cable. No hard drive in existance can put out 133MBps. The fastest 7200 RPM UltraDMA/100 drives can reach a maximum "sustained" transfer rate of less than 42MBps, and that's only on the fastest part of the disk. Only RAID configurations can achieve higher speeds. Read Internal Sustained Transfer Rate (STR) http://www.storagereview.com/map/lm.cgi/str Therefore if you have a two UDMA of at least mode 4(UDMA66) drives on the same IDE cable you shouldn't incure much of a performance hit, even less if the second device is not used often. Like I said it IS debatable. Written in response to: re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (mojo7819: Friday, June 4, 2004 at 12:34 pm) Responses to this message: re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (mojo7819: Friday, June 4, 2004 at 1:18 pm) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (Tom Swanson: Friday, June 4, 2004 at 1:18 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] 3 CD roms How to make work? (storm: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 10:09 am) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (carbo18: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 11:22 am) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (Ricer46: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 11:40 am) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (storm: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 11:43 am) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (mojo7819: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 11:54 am) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (carbo18: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 12:03 pm) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (mojo7819: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 12:34 pm) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (carbo18: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 12:51 pm) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (mojo7819: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 1:18 pm) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (Tom Swanson: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 1:18 pm) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (carbo18: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 7:52 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum