Best use for fasteset hard drive?

[Johnbear007]

Hi there!

Here is my situation:


I have 1 74gb SATA Raptor

I have tw0 120GB ide drives (not in RAID, not the same make and model)
2.4ghz athlon 64 agp 6800 128mb / 2gb ddr

I mainly game, but also would like to do some photoshop work, however photo shop performance is NOT primary, gaming is.

So, my question is this:

What is the best way to put the raptor to use?

Should I have windows installed on it with apps and games and put my swap on one of the IDE drives, or should I install windows on an IDE drive and put my swap and apps/games on the raptor?

Thanks!

remember:

The raptor is SATA, the other two are IDE

 

[myocardia]

I personally would put my apps/games on one IDE drive, and leave Windows and the swap file on the Raptor. Why? It's simple: every time you have to reload Windows, nothing has to be reinstalled except Windows, plus your drivers, with a few exceptions. Everything else can be left exactly as is, just put the shortcuts where you want them. You don't even need to reinstall all of the updates that games always require.

 

[F1shF4t]

Put windows and swap on the raptor it will be a hell of a lot faster, then u can use the other two for storage, or one for games instalations and another one for storage.

 

[imported_lavalamp]

What you could do is have 3 partitions on your Raptor. An ample amount for Windows, then a much smaller partition for the swap file (to prevent it from getting fragmented), and the the final partition to install app's from. With Windows at the beginning of the drive (and on a Raptor), it will load up pretty damn fast while still being separated from all the important stuff.

 

[0roo0roo]

then a much smaller partition for the swap file (to prevent it from getting fragmented)

naw, juist set it to fixed size instead. 1.5-2x size of ram and you are fine.