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Does having a slave drive slow down your computer?

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Instead of having to pay $25 on an external enclosure, would having a slave drive for extra storage slow down the performance of my computer at all?
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Not at all. I have never had a problem with slave. But if you are still using IDE, thats going to bottleneck your PC big time.
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Probably not.
In the old days mixing various speed/format IDE drives on the came cable could dog down the Master, but with the OS on a SATA, secondary drives regardless of IDE or SATA as a storage aren't usually relevant.
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Originally Posted by Raptor_Jesus
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Not at all. I have never had a problem with slave. But if you are still using IDE, thats going to bottleneck your PC big time.

Why would IDE bottleneck a PC "big time"?
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Why would IDE bottleneck a PC "big time"?

Okay, perhaps not big time, but it is still a bottleneck nonetheless.

However, it depends on what you are doing with it.
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IDE may not be "big time" bottleneck, but it is definitely noticeable. A slave drive on IDE will hurt performance, but not much.
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Hmm, okay, cause last time I used a slave drive it seemed to slow down the performance of my computer.

Offtopic: Would an IDE optical drive bottleneck the computer at all?
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Hmm, okay, cause last time I used a slave drive it seemed to slow down the performance of my computer.

Offtopic: Would an IDE optical drive bottleneck the computer at all?

IDE Optical will not.
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