wat would be better for a hard drive set up?

[eviljoker]

15 gb 7200rpm 2mb master with seperate 160gb slave
or
160gb 7200rpm 8mb master, partition with 10gb primarary boot



faster or slower/ better or worse

 

[KoolDrew]

Just use the 160GB. Making a 10GB partition is juust a waste though unless you have special needs.

 

[eviljoker]

which would boot faster and run fasrter

 

[KoolDrew]

The 160GB

 

[Zepper]

A multiple physical drive system can be more efficient than a one large drive system - assuming the drives are allocated properly and located on separate channels (except for SCSI where several drives can share one channel with ease). I have three physical drives with all the scratch space, TEMP folders, printer spooler, swap file, etc. (IOW most of the writes) on a partition on one of them away from the OS and have had no drive (or even file) corruption in over a year. Knock on wood!

.bh.