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which hard drive to install my OS on.

rimaxo14rimaxo14 Member Posts: 118
in Hardware

Hello everyone im going to be getting a velciraptor 150gb hard drive for gaming and a 1TB for everything else my question is what hard drive should i install my OS on will installing it on my raptor 10,000 rpm drive make it boot faster just curious hehe.

EVGA FTW-3 MOBO X58
EVGA GTX 580
G.SKILL RIPJAW 12GB
INTEL I7 950
CORSAIR H70 CPU COOLER
CORSAIR 1200W 80+GOLD

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  • rimaxo14rimaxo14 Member Posts: 118

    64 GB Kingston 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Nearly Instant Data Access Technology

     

    what would a hard drive like that do

    EVGA FTW-3 MOBO X58
    EVGA GTX 580
    G.SKILL RIPJAW 12GB
    INTEL I7 950
    CORSAIR H70 CPU COOLER
    CORSAIR 1200W 80+GOLD

    image
  • Death1942Death1942 Member UncommonPosts: 2,587

    i'm not 100% sure but i think the speed boost is too small to notice.  tbh i would shove it on the smaller harddrive and allocate a couple of gigs for system ram.  Shove only a few applications on that harddrive and use the 1tb for everything else.

    MMO wish list:

    -Changeable worlds
    -Solid non level based game
    -Sharks with lasers attached to their heads

  • rimaxo14rimaxo14 Member Posts: 118

    ya going to put all my games on the small one

    EVGA FTW-3 MOBO X58
    EVGA GTX 580
    G.SKILL RIPJAW 12GB
    INTEL I7 950
    CORSAIR H70 CPU COOLER
    CORSAIR 1200W 80+GOLD

    image
  • marinridermarinrider Member UncommonPosts: 1,556

    Putting it on a SSD (solid state drive) would be best.  It would be much faster than the 10,000 RPM.  And if you have the OS on its own drive, and all your programs and storage on another, it will help windows itself run faster.  But either way the SSD is your best option.

  • drbaltazardrbaltazar Member UncommonPosts: 7,856

     as long as you put os on a seperate hd (20 gb  will do)and put the rest of your program on another say your 1 tb your good

    ssd is optional in my view ,if you use 64 bit  os,use ramdisk and send everything in the ramdisk you ll be good ,ssd will only speed up loading 

  • madeuxmadeux Member Posts: 1,786

    It will definitely boot faster... but only by a few seconds.  What does that really buy you?

    Same goes for gaming, though.  When you're playing a game, if you have enough ram, your hard drive really has very little to do with the speed of the game.  Just like booting, your loading time for a game will be faster, but don't expect any other performance increase.

  • madeuxmadeux Member Posts: 1,786

    At work I boot from a solid state disk.... boot time is WAY fast... but I keep my computer on all of the time, so it really does me no good. 

  • drbaltazardrbaltazar Member UncommonPosts: 7,856
    Originally posted by madeux


    At work I boot from a solid state disk.... boot time is WAY fast... but I keep my computer on all of the time, so it really does me no good. 

    same here,i only hibernate my computer so ssd is useless i wish i had 64 bit os tho i could put all my data on ram instead of using ramdisk for pagefile and os,cause when i put pagefile on ram something bring error (low memory warning 

    i could ignore it but i d rater not ,if i use ramdisk everything is fine but i can only do a 500 mb for that wich is not enough since i need 3 gig

  • arctarusarctarus Member UncommonPosts: 2,581

    Put your OS on the 150gig and other software that you need like anti-spyware, virus, malware etc. Having enough free space in your HD will also make loading faster.

    Than put the rest like your games, mp3, pics, etc to that 1TB drive...

     

     

    RIP Orc Choppa

  • CleffyCleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414

    I like using a small drive exclusively for the OS.  It alleviates some problems with fragmentation and corruption.

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