Advantages in using 2 Hard drives

chrisalviola

chrisalviola

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I always finding ways in increasing my PC performance, i tried disabling all my motherboards on board hardware which some how increased boot speed, This time I want to try installing my WinOS on my first harddisk on drive C and program files on the other harddisk on drive D, will this somehow increase performance? any advantages?:rolleyes:
 
I placed my 1st HD on primary master thats where the OS is, the 2nd HD is in the secondary master is where the programs installed.
 
im not sure if that would make your computer faster, the way i do it is i put all programs and there files on drive c along with my os then for all my films and music on my secondary...
 
One time I had a PC with a 4.3GB master and a 20GB slave drive. When the master got pretty full, I put a folder called "Program Files" on the slave, and when installing a new app, when it asked where I wanted to put the files, chose the slave drive's Program Files folder. I didn't notice any "improvement", but the apps worked just fine anyway.
Tom
 
Hmm

I do not think you would see any improvement. Rather than that, seperate data like movies, music and pictures onto a seperate HDD. That way, you will have programs and Windows on one HDD and the other media on the other one. That's how I have it anyway :P

JAN :D
 
chrisalviola said:
I always finding ways in increasing my PC performance, i tried disabling all my motherboards on board hardware which some how increased boot speed, This time I want to try installing my WinOS on my first harddisk on drive C and program files on the other harddisk on drive D, will this somehow increase performance? any advantages?:rolleyes:
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That wont increase performance, that will just be a hassle.

The only way to increase performance is to RAID multiple hard drives. RAID 0 for instance, takes two hard drives and turn them into one, and allows for higher transfer rates.
 
But wont large size hard drives takes longer to read files? so if you place your OS on a separate disk with a smaller size ex. 10Gb wont that increase performance? or maybe reduce Hard drive heat or something?
 
Purchase a raptor hdd, although their sizes aren't the greatest, you can't really compare considering the RPM and transfer speed.
 
You may want to consider moving the page file off the boot disk and onto the secondary drive. The performance benefits aren't dramatic, but do exist.
 
Raptors are really that good.I thought when i would get the Raptor 150gb it would be superfast.Of course its very fast but not as much as i expected.

My system starts in about 35 seconds with 36 processes running.

Look:

 
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