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Old 01-18-2008, 10:00 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Re: MSI K9N SLI Platinum Socket AM2 No Post.

In real-world use you're looking at about 50-80MBps tranfser rates from hard drives. Hard drives running at 10K RPM and higher achieve somewhat higher output rates, but rarely break 100MBps.

Even so it's best to give each device its own cable. Optical drives use the ATA33 spec for transferring data. Any device on that cable with the optical drive will also be limited to ATA33 speeds meaning that HDD performance will suffer.
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