RobEubank

Quote: Quote: Why would a removable HDD cage make a hit on performance? it's still connected to the mobo's IDE controller. i always thought that removable drivers were considerably slower in their connection from the drive into the cage. guess i was wrong. It depends on the brand and type. Some have the 80 conductor ribbon cable while some have only 40 conductor. The old style will give the same performance hit as an older IDE cable. The newer ones may give a YNNI (You'll never notice it) hit due to capacitance of the connector itself but overall performance is not changed. Cooling the newer faster hard drives in the limited air space can become an issue though. Most olderremovable rack are only rated for 5400RPM or lower drives.

I'm having the same issue also accompanied by a extremely slow boot. It happens only occasionally though. I also receive the following Machine Check intermittently Data: 0000: 00 00 38 00 03 00 9c 00 ..8...?. 0008: 00 00 00 00 1a 00 00 40 .......@ 0010: 01 00 00 00 1a 00 00 40 .......@ 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0028: 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 ........ 0030: b0 71 67 ca 40 ab c2 01 °qgÊ@«Â. 0038: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0040: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0048: 7b 26 c3 cf 01 9c 02 ef {&ÃÏ.?.ï 0050: 01 80 90 00 7b 24 00 4c .??.{$.L 0058: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........