lankeyluke Posted April 3, 2009 Posted April 3, 2009 I have a WD 250gb SATA hard drive that a i got with my new PC. It has a 16mb cache. I have also got from a friend a relativly new seagate barracuda 7200.10. It has a 8mb cache and i beieve is a bit slower than my WD. I have not even filled up my WD but would like to keep my new hard drive for when it gets full. I want to do a full re-install of Vista (i have the disc) and was wondering wether i should put data on the seagate and OS and games on the other, or data and OS on one and games on the other. Maximum performance is my preferance although i would prefer not to do RAID 0. all suggestions are very welcome as i know very little about drives, storage and drive speed. many thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verran Posted April 3, 2009 Posted April 3, 2009 I'm not sure what the question is here, but if I'm getting it right, then my answer is to put games and OS on the faster one and "data" on the other one. But that depends on what you mean by "data" That's about as vague as it gets. If you mean MP3s, videos, installers, backups, etc. then yes, that won't suffer at all on a slower drive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lankeyluke Posted April 3, 2009 Posted April 3, 2009 Sorry i was in a bit of a hurry to got somewhere. I ment by data music and movies. I was thinking though would the OS suffer from being on the slower drive. Because games and The OS are both being accesses at the same time having them on different drives may help. Just a therey. So you roccomend data on the seagate and programs/OS on the WD. cheers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verran Posted April 3, 2009 Posted April 3, 2009 The OS and the games are what are going to benefit from faster drives. MP3s and videos and such are really not going to benefit. They could be on an old 5400RPM drive and they'd probably be fine. They're just not that bandwidth intensive. So I'm not sure which drive is which, but put the OS and games on the "faster" one Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lankeyluke Posted April 3, 2009 Posted April 3, 2009 Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baulten Posted April 5, 2009 Posted April 5, 2009 I stream my music off a 5400 RPM IDE drive. I can't load games off of it though; at least, I can't load them in a reasonable time frame. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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