Ideal hard drive set-up for dummies

Rit

Rit

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So my new computer is almost complete and ready to put it together this weekend! :D But I never understood the whole partitioning, solid state, etc.. I plan on going sata cause I finally can! As of right now I have a 160GB SATA and a 80GB SATA.

Including equipment I have and don't have, what would be the ideal set up? (and I don't mean get bigger hard drives :P )
 
But I thought I read something about having a 'sold state' drive to put the operating system on for quicker loading or something like that?:confused:
 
Some feel that the expense of the SSDs are justified by their faster read and access speeds, others are patiently waiting for the price to come down and the technology to mature before switching. They are much faster for certain tasks such as, bootup, shutdown, virus scans, pretty much any disk read task. I recently switched and am happy with my decision, but the truth is that the best of the spinning disks will serve 95% of users just fine. If you do decide to go with an SSD boot disk do your research before buying. There is much variation in value, speed, ease of setup, etc. :)
 
Rit said:
But I thought I read something about having a 'sold state' drive to put the operating system on for quicker loading or something like that?:confused:
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So your 80GB is solid state? I even if it's not, I would still use the 80GB for the OS and the 160 for storage.
 
:confused: so one person says 80GB as main and another 160GB. I don't have a solid state HD, but don't think I will be getting one either.
 
its more of a personal preference.

if you are going to be installing a lot of games and apps, use the 160gb as primary, and the 80gb as storage

if you are going to only install a few games, and have a bunch of movies, music, etc, use the 80gb as primary, and the 160gb as storage
 
ganzey said:
its more of a personal preference.

if you are going to be installing a lot of games and apps, use the 160gb as primary, and the 80gb as storage

if you are going to only install a few games, and have a bunch of movies, music, etc, use the 80gb as primary, and the 160gb as storage
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My personal way would be using the SSD as my primary drive and 160GB as storage :)
 
So clarify this, will the 80 or 160 drive be SSD or just SATA? People think you using SSD are because these are the two std Intel SSD sizes. In your last post you say you do not have, nor will have, SSD.

If you are not going SSD forget 80 or 160 and get a 500-1000GB HHD, they are low cost and fast. If you are going SSD just get one 160 and another 500-1000gb HDD for the second drive.

If you only have an 80 and 160gb HHD (non-SSD) and don't want to buy a new HDD just use the 160 for now.
 
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I have two hard drives. A 232 gigabyte and a 74 gigabyte hard drive in my system. I use the 232 gigabyte as my primary hard drive and my other drive I copy all the data I value onto it.

Works for me just in case one of my hard drives fails.
 
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