I have an extra hdd I want to install as a slave but don't know if i need to put a jumper on my master and slave or just the slave and what is the benefit of having a slave
2006-07-30 05:48:23 · 11 answers · asked by gambler 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Some hard drives have jumper settings that require you set it to master IF you have a slave drive. Others have settings that set are "Master or Single" meaning you don't have to set the jumper if you add a slave, the single drive setting is the same as the master drive setting. Take the drive out and check the settings on the label or look up the drive on the manufacturer's web site and check the documentation there.
Western Digital drives (especially older ones) required you jumper them differently depending if they were single drives or had a slave present. MOST other makers didn't matter.
As for the benefit of having another drive:
1. More storage space
2. Could place the pagefile on a separate drive which could slightly improve overall performance.
3. If you had a RAID controller (and the drive was an appropriate size), you could mirror your existing drive and have an instant backup protecting against hardware failure (it would not be a backup against accidental deletion or corruption).
2006-07-30 05:50:49 · answer #1 · answered by lwcomputing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends upon the drive make and model.
Some have no jumper when a single master, a jumper when a master with slave!
My philosophy, based upon the EIDE standards that are written and supposedly adhered to by drive makers, is that the new drive is probably an ATA133 EIDE drive. The older one, probably an ATA33 or 66, or 100. The new drive will be crippled if forced to run at the old drive data-transfer speed!
So, here are the options.
I presume you have IDE cable to CD, DVD devices, and NEVER run a hard drive paired with those very slow devices. It slows the drive data transfer rates to below 33mbs/ Not a 'good thing'!
I presume that all hard drives run on the stiffer and finer pattern, 80 wire conductor, 40 pin, IDE cables for faster and noise free transfer.
1. get an Ultra 133 PCI card, and put the new drive on it's own 80 conductor IDE cable.
OR:
2. Make the new drive the master, ALONE for best speed, on an 80 conductor IDE cable, and the old drive the slave, copy the old drive's cata over, and then remove the old drive to put into an external USB/ Firewire IEEE1394 case http://www.airlink101.com/products/aen35wc.html that you can get for less than $30, try http://pricewatch.com or my local store, that does mail order, http://cheapguys.com (make sure you are getting the correct product! AEN-35WC is a 3.5" drive case, wiht both USB2.0 and Firewire 400!)!
If #2, then, you will lose your Microsoft install, so you have to do that all over again...
OR.
3, put the new drive into the external case, It comes formatted to DOS FAT, or NTFS, but, you can make it anything you desire. Copy what ever you want and it will be transportable! to any computer!
On my MACs, and on my Linux systems, I use their proper filesystem types, and, I only let a NTFS filesystem onto about 5 GB of one drive, in case I ever hit a Microsoft system... I can use a LiveCD to copy any Microsoft files, to any filesystem format!
Then, no defrags, no virus, no thrashed and broken drives! You'll want to use http://pclinuxos.com for the FREE liveCDrom!
2006-07-30 07:13:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
having a slave basically allows you to run 2 drives on the same IDE channel. Some master drives have separate settings for "Single" and "Master" and some are the same. If I were you I would take the drives out and look at the label. 99% of HDs have labels that indicate the jumper settings.
2006-07-30 05:51:27 · answer #3 · answered by dzr0001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The master drive should already be set to Cable Select on the jumper settings (from the factory) so just set the extra drive to cable select and put it on the same channel as the exsisting hard drive. Having another drive set as slave is just having more space to put files and folders. All it does is add more space (which is always good!)
2006-07-30 05:52:58 · answer #4 · answered by Grant N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One shoud be on master and the other slave. Or you can select cable select and the master will be the one on the beginning of the cable and the slave toward the end of the ribbon cable. Slave drives are great for storage and installation of software outside of the boot drive. You will keep your overall speed keeping as little data on the boot drive.
2006-07-30 05:52:55 · answer #5 · answered by harley01xlc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just put the jumper on your slave HDD to slave position. That is all. Your master HDD should remain as it is.
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2006-07-30 05:53:03 · answer #6 · answered by Valyo . 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your existing drive is already a master. Jumper the second drive as a slave.
2006-07-30 05:52:11 · answer #7 · answered by blackfangz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just put the jumper, it won;t cause harm,, the instruction is always there in the hdd it self,
instead partitioning, a slave will speed up loading time a bit...
you can always enslave your old small hdd, instead throw it away or abandon it on storage room
2006-07-30 06:08:29 · answer #8 · answered by Henry W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at your current hard drive and follow its lead. If it is set to cable select, leave it and set the other drive to cable select also and use the second plug on the same cable. If it is set to master, set the new one to slave and use the other plug on the same cable.
2006-07-30 05:56:13 · answer #9 · answered by EG345 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, be sure master is set as master,2nd drive will act as additional storage, if you get a virus in your master,your slave shouldn,t get infected, unless you add infected files to it
2006-07-30 06:03:57 · answer #10 · answered by jlbudweiser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋