hard drive setup?

[compfreak999]

i have

seagate 160gb 8mb buffer 7200rpm

hitachi 180gxp 180gb 8mb buffer 7200rpm

which one should be primary?

 

[LordPhoenix]

The bigger...one.... I guess. It doesn't really matter cuz their practically the same specs except diff companies.

 

[Goi]

I'd put the faster one as the primary. In this case, I think the 160GB Seagate is the faster of the 2

On a similar topic, I have a Liteon DVD-ROM, Liteon DVD writer, old WD1200JB, slightly newer 180GXP 80GB 2MB buffer, and 2 IDE channels. I'm wondering if I should group the HDDs and optical drives on the same IDE channel, or put 1 of each per IDE channel? Or does it even matter?

 

[compfreak999]

i decided to use the seagate 160gb as primary, cause of the fact ill be booting more stuff off that so its for
1. going to be used more
2. is quieter overall

 

[JoeChicken]

It's also important to think about how your going to partition those drives, especially if you plan to keep proper backups. If your interested here is my setup on my 2 drives:

Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPMs *SATA

Partition 1: C:, 25GB, OS & Other Programs
Partition 2: E:, 33GB, All Data & Other Files
Partition 3: G:, 20GB, Games, Game Programs & other game related files


Western Digital 250GB 7200 RPMs *SATA

Partition 1: M:, 157GB, Media Drive (Music, Video, Imaging)
Partition 2: I:, 15GB, Image of C: (Clean Install w/primary programs installed)
Partition 3: D:, 25GB, Backup of C: (updated weekly)
Partition 4: F:, 33GB, Backup of E: (updated weekly)
Partition 5: H:, 20GB, Backup of G: (updated weekly)



I know it's prolly overkill but hey, I have never had an issue with data recovery with this setup. And on a side note, I use CDs to backup my media drive.

 

[wfn]

i would say it largely depends on your access patterns. Assuming we're talking about a seagate cuda 7200.7 i think you should use it as your boot drive as it is going to be a tad bit faster booting up. If you're talking about a different model seagate you'd have to do some benchmarks. 180gxp is an older drive (there's been 2 generations of ibm/hitachi since that drive) but even though it is faster when it comes to raw seek time. you want to try and compare your drives head to head here:

http://storagereview.com/comparison.html