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The RPMs will not change. However, if they are on the same cable, sometimes performance may degrade a little... but not to the extent that a 7200RPM drive behaves like a 5400. What are the DMA settings at, and what are each drive's capabilities? Also, what os are you on? DMA5 = ATA100. Not sure about the rest. Have you tried a disk benchmark?
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Goto device manager, doubleclick on primary IDE Channel, and go to the advanced tab. You should see both the master and slave and their settings. Your primary is most likely ATA100, which translates to DMA5 for Current Transfer Mode. Your slave, is probably slower. If you are seeing PIO mode, that's at least part of your problem. Have you tried benchmarking your drives? Also, when you installed the slave, did you change your settings in the bios? If it is not set to "top speed" there, that cascades down to the OS. Last, when you installed it, did you use "Cable Select" or master/slave config? Also, when I switched from FAT32 to NTFS, I noticed some speed loss. The benchmarks showed it too. However, it was a good trade off.
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Not sure why NTFS should be such a good trade off though. I don't see much in the way of benifits for a single user. AidanII
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Well, the only things i can think of for NTFS are security, a little space gain, and built in compression ability. There is something about disk errors and fault tolerance but I'm sure about that stuff. IDK, if that isworth the trade-off for home use. I use NTFS though because I came from NT4, and accually am going back to a dual boot with it.
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To be quite honest, I'm not an expert at NTFS. But I've heard there are additional measures built in to reduce lost clusters and such. Actually, of the 5 machines in my house, 3 use FAT32, 1 NTFS5, and 1 NTFS4.
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If you happen to play around with your computer and get blue screens and have to "improperly" shutdown a lot, then NTFS is probably worth it to have. It takes quite a lot of "improper" shutdowns to corrupt a NTFS partition. My .02, if you have a version of NT, I really see no purpose to have FAT32, except if you dual boot and want to share files.
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Me being the dumbass, I forgot to mention that my machine is also dual boot with 98SE/2000. Gotta be able to use the drive... Quote:
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I notice a fair amount of fragmentation on my NTFS partitions, even after a couple of months worth of use. AidanII
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A certain member on this forum recently suffered that problem too... AidanII
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This seems to fall into the catagory of "what's the weakest link??" I believe that the 5400 is holding you back. Rob
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