Set the new harddisk as slave to your 9.1G harddisk is the best you can get. so the slow CD drive would affect harddisk performance. Jeffrey Ottie wrote: > Good Afternoon Everyone, > > I own a one-year-old Dell Dimension desktop that came with a > factory-installed 9.1 GB Maxtor 7,200rpm hard drive (Model #90913D4). > > Recently I purchased a 10 GB Maxtor 7,200rpm Diamond Max Plus High > Performance EIDE hard drive kit (Kit #ST0151000U; Serial #K204J5JC) with the > intention of adding a second hard drive to my system. > > Question No. 1: > Which of these two hard drives is the highest performance unit? I'd like to > utilize the best performer as my primary master drive, assuming it's > advisable to do so. I bet you can't see the performance difference with those two Maxtor, anyway, the new one should be better. > > My main reason for purchasing the second hard drive is to use it to back up > my primary hard drive in the unlikely event the primary drive should fail or > in the (more likely) scenario that the information stored on the primary > drive should somehow become corrupted to the extent that a clean wipe, > partition and format of the drive is required. This is what I'm doing, very good idea on backup. I have my most important stuff copied to 2nd harddisk, in case anything happened on my C: drive, I can rebuild it without lossing data. Jun Qian Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html