Raid and PATA question.

You know how you have seperate Raid and PATA connectors on a mobo,
will the PATA drive slow down a raid system ? if you have a PATA drive
connected to the PATA connector ?

Like when you copy a file to or from a raid or PATA drive ?

Just like to know.

As i want to install all my games and applications on the raid, faster
load ect ect ect

But i still want my PATA connected to backup anything i download to my
raid drives.

Thanks.

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 > You know how you have seperate Raid and PATA connectors on a mobo,
 > will the PATA drive slow down a raid system ? if you have a PATA drive
 > connected to the PATA connector ?
 >
 > Like when you copy a file to or from a raid or PATA drive ?
 >
 > Just like to know.
 >
 > As i want to install all my games and applications on the raid, faster
 > load ect ect ect
 >
 > But i still want my PATA connected to backup anything i download to my
 > raid drives.
 >
 > Thanks.
 >
The connectors are usually separate channels so no they shouldn't slow one
another down. There is a PCI transfer limit (133MB/s ?), but I think your
drives will max out before the PCI bus.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->