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Step-By-Step: Get Maximum Speed From Your New Drives

Stan Miastkowski

2. Set slower drives as slaves

You should always configure the faster drive on an EIDE channel as the master, and the slower as the slave. For example, if you have both a 5400-rpm hard drive and a 7200-rpm drive, set the latter's jumpers to make it the master. If you're running a CD-RW or rewritable-DVD drive on a secondary channel with a read-only optical drive, make the rewritable drive the master to ensure reliable disc creation.

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