schrags11

Lets say you are having a 30gb transfer from one drive to another on a computer. Does that data go from the hard drive, THROUGH the processor, then to the other drive? Or just drive to motherboard to drive?

wmcjhi

I'm 99% sure that it goes to the processor...

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Howard2k

It would go through the processor.

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grentz

Yup, through the processor....pretty much everything has to go through the processor as the mainboard really has no brains to do anything on its own

Noisy Crow

Actually... the answer depends on the hardware you have on hand. An intelligent drive controller is perfectly capable of moving data between drives without running it through the mainboard. This is something only usually found in a server...

ericcumbee

a raid array wouldnt go through the main cpu