kookooshortman55

If you're playing games you need bigger drives. I hardly have any media on here, maybe about ~50 gigs, and I wish I had a bigger hard drive. The average game takes up about 5GB, and I don't have that many games and I already used up about 150GB. 160GB really won't last you. What's wrong with just getting one large drive? It would be easier and cheaper.

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lawson_jl

A 500GB SATA drive is $65.00 on Tigerdirect.com so it's not like it's a huge investment. You also didnt' say what OS your going to be using. If you are going to using Vista or Windows 7 a 20GB drive won't been enough a 40GB drive won't cut it either. Also if you go two drives to separate your games/programs from the OS your not going to gain anything. In fact if you ever have to reinstall Windows you will still have to reinstall all your games/programs anyway since the registry will be wiped out. Defrag wise your not going to see much of a differnce either. A larger drive will get fragmented less anyway since there is more room for files.

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epidemik

ehhh not really. Not as easy as it sounds/you would think. Theres other things being referenced/theres more to the game than just the game file (ie registry)

If youre getting drives, I'd highly recommend just getting one large drive. It wont cost that much more (decent chance it will save you money). The only reason to use 2 drives from the start is if you already own them and are on a tight budget. (Or if one is significantly faster ie a raptor) (maybe a few other exceptions...)

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Springy182

Ehhh, 20GB is NOT enough for game installs, you'll want at least a 160-200GB drive for your OS, then 400-500GB more for other data

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AlienMenace

Drives are pretty cheap. I have 2 Seagate's Sata 3.0 500's in my machine. If I run out of space on those, I'm nuts.
Here is one from newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136320
I think it is a little better deal than the Tiger is.

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jsawyer1181

Ya you don't want small hard drives. I would recommend larger drives rather than small drives as for the most part they are faster. I used to use two 250 gig drives. They I decided to just go for my WD 640gig and that's about a good amount of space for games and the operating system. Im planning on getting another 640gb drive for all the other crap I have laying around, and if I run out of space on those two monsters, then theres something wrong with me. I never filled up even a single 250gb drive, but I want to run RAID so I want matched drives. That's another thing to think about. You can use a single drive that is larger, or go with 2 larger drives and run them in a RAID configuration.