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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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 Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:13 am Post subject: |
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| Someone suggested that I buy two hdd's. One a 10000rpm "raptor" 72 gig's made by WD and another larger one 320gig. The idea being I should install my os and any speed hungry programs I use on the 10000. And use the other for backing up and storage.They suggested that this setup would make my com much faster. What do you think? |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:03 am Post subject: |
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Going mental...
Sure. Get the Raptor (though "speed hungry programs" is an odd line of thought); it will load things up quickly. They do get warm, so when you buy your case, think of some isolation and good ventilation on that drive.
Then get two 500GB drives and RAID them. Secure (in case on drive goes south) and fast. Put the OS and software on the Raptor, make a partition for games (if you game). Leave about 30GB for the OS/programs side of things and leave the rest for games and bigger page-file hungry apps (no matter how much RAM you have installed, Windows will use the page file), which you will make static and move it to that partition, away from the OS.
When looking at drives there are a few points to consider. Seek times, acoustics (noise), thermals (heat) and reliability. Read a ton of reviews. |
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