In two non-RAID drive system - Which drive for O/S - faster one?

[9nines]

My system has a 10,000RPM Raptor 75 gigabyte drive. I am using about 50% of it and want to get an additional drive fro more capacity but do not want to buy another Raptor for RAID, as I will replace my whole system probably in six months.

I usually do not have a problem with capacity because I keep my drive clean but I am beta testing Vanguard and the beta game stores over 20 gigabytes of files.

I will probably buy a 160 Gigabyte 16 megs of cache SATA drive.

With those two drives, on which should I place

1) O/S
2) Virtual Memory page files
3) Games

I am thinking O/S and Virtual Memory on faster Raptor drive and game data on second drive but I am not sure this is optimal.

Opinions/advice?

Thanks for any help.

 

[smn198]

Put your virtual memory on both drives

 

[ncage]

Well only thing that putting a raptor for your main drive is that you will get faster bootups (probably not THAT much faster) which wouldn't matter to me but it might to you. What i would do is move your page file to whatever drive letter you set up as the raptor. That will make a difference. But whether to set the raptor up as the OS drive or an extra hard drive i don't think makes a big difference either way. If it was me i would set the raptor up as an extra drive "d" and set your new hard drive up as the main boot drive "c" and move the page file to "d".

Ncage

 

[9nines]

Thanks.

If it does not make a difference, I will probably just add the new drive as extra drive, that way I do not have to reinstall Windows (just did it about 5 weeks ago, to clean registry etc., as I do every 6 months or so and would rather not do it again right now.)

 

[Boyo]

I would keep the OS on the Raptor and leave the virtual memory alone. Then when you get the extra drive, move your media and other files that are not used on a regular basis to the new drive. That should free up some space on the main drive. USe the extra drive for backups, media and othe files....You want to run your games from the Raptor.

 

[9nines]

The main game issue is the Vanguard Beta files. They are over 20 gigabytes as the game files are not commerically optomized in size yet. I guess I will just move that game to the new drive, along with other media type files and leave my other game(s) on Raptor.