Best plan for formatting on new system?

[anomaly]

Im going to be putting together my new system tomorrow, and have 2 different hard drives. HD #1 is a 160GB 8mb cache 7200rpm hd, HD #2 is 80GB 2mb cache 7200rpm. My main question is to due with gaming performance. It's my understanding that it is best to have OS on a one drive, and apps/games on the other. But given my difference in cache/hd size what would be my best options?

 

[Electric Amish]

Personally, I really don't think it makes as much difference as people say. Also, to me, it's a large PITA to redirect every damned install to go to your "Special" place.

I'd just divide the 160gb in half and use the first half for OS/Apps and the second half for data storage.

amish

 

I would just create 40 gig partition for OS and apps and leave the rest for storage. I would ditch the 80 gig drive unless you have a large media collection you need to store.

 

[anomaly]

Originally posted by: DrJohnMarkway
I would just create 40 gig partition for OS and apps and leave the rest for storage. I would ditch the 80 gig drive unless you have a large media collection you need to store.

Why should I throw out a perfectly good drive? I might as well use it for mp3's/divx. Im not going to be doing encoding, so if im watching a movie it's going to be just that. I might play mp3's while playing BF1942 though.

 

Originally posted by: anomaly

Originally posted by: DrJohnMarkway
I would just create 40 gig partition for OS and apps and leave the rest for storage. I would ditch the 80 gig drive unless you have a large media collection you need to store.

Why should I throw out a perfectly good drive? I might as well use it for mp3's/divx. Im not going to be doing encoding, so if im watching a movie it's going to be just that. I might play mp3's while playing BF1942 though.

Who said throw out a perfectly good hardrive ? Do what ever you want. 160 gigs of storage seems like overkill to me.

 

[anomaly]

Originally posted by: DrJohnMarkway

Originally posted by: anomaly

Originally posted by: DrJohnMarkway
I would just create 40 gig partition for OS and apps and leave the rest for storage. I would ditch the 80 gig drive unless you have a large media collection you need to store.

Why should I throw out a perfectly good drive? I might as well use it for mp3's/divx. Im not going to be doing encoding, so if im watching a movie it's going to be just that. I might play mp3's while playing BF1942 though.

Who said throw out a perfectly good hardrive ? Do what ever you want. 160 gigs of storage seems like overkill to me.

It will be 240gb if I use em both =0

 

[chocoruacal]

Originally posted by: DrJohnMarkway

Originally posted by: anomaly

Originally posted by: DrJohnMarkway
I would just create 40 gig partition for OS and apps and leave the rest for storage. I would ditch the 80 gig drive unless you have a large media collection you need to store.

Why should I throw out a perfectly good drive? I might as well use it for mp3's/divx. Im not going to be doing encoding, so if im watching a movie it's going to be just that. I might play mp3's while playing BF1942 though.

Who said throw out a perfectly good hardrive ? Do what ever you want. 160 gigs of storage seems like overkill to me.

LOL....then you aren't using the Internet "right," bro 😉 I've got 500gigs of storage...PACKED.

Here's what I'd do with the drives:

10 part OS
30 part PROGRAMS

160 for storage

Having the OS and PROGRAMS on separate drives will be a bit quicker, but not enough to notice.

 

[Lonyo]

I'd stick "essential" programs (like word processing/image editing/not game stuff) on the OS partition, then you can back up all your essential stuff and if anything ever goes wrong you'll be able to have it all there easily.