Will installing a second hard drive (Maxtor 160gb. ATA ) slow my computer drasticaly?It will be slave.?

Question

How much work is involved after the physical installation of the second drive? ATA takes care of itself? (lack of better words!) Thanks, you guys are always on the money.

Answer 1

You probably won't notice any change in speed. Use the 2nd Slave drive for data only. I recommend that you use NTFS for your file system on the 2nd drive.

Good luck and Happy Computing!

Answer 2

WEll, If you're current hard drive is IDE, and if you install a second hard drive which is ATA drive, then there is nothing slowing it down. The ATA card has it's own I/O management.

If you're current hard drive is already ATA and this is the second drive which is slave, then you'll only see decrease in speed in I/O , not the CPU. But of course if both ATA drives are fully active and busy, then you're CPU has to process all those operations too, so there will be a little more higher CPU usage because of the operations sent to the I/O card uses CPU power.

How much work is involve after the installation of the drive?? You already installed it, after that the BIOS recognizes it automatically. Then you use the disk administrator (windows) to partition it and/or format it and start using.

Answer 3

No, it will not slow down your computer. Follow the instructions, turn off the computer, touch something metal to ground yourself, get rid of static electricity, find a empty spot to screw in the new hard drive, plug in the ribbon cable, make sure the jumper (little plug on the back of hard drive is set to Slave), turn on the computer. Might even make your computer faster if you put most of your big files, games on it, freeing up the virtual memory space on your old hard drive, and not fragmenting it as quickly. Chow

Answer 4

not at all, and all you need is a driver to make it functional.....it will come wiith a disk.