Maximum IDE bus speed with a 40 connector cable is 33MHz.
Maximum speed (depending on mobo and HDD) with 80 connector cable is 133MHz, 4 times as fast. I think that HDD has a max speed of 100MHz though, only 3 times as fast.
Just for clarity, this is total bullshit. There are conditions where you shouldn't mix hdd and cd-rw on the same cable, for cd write performance, but that's not what is happening here.ok, one last time. Hdd's should be run together, you shouldn't mix Hdd's and cd together.
Edit: typo
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