WD SE (8mb cache) hard drive - use as main drive or secondary?

[lookin4dlz]

Just purchased my first 8mb cache drive. Should I go through the trouble of moving all of my programs & settings to this and use it as my boot drive? This might help with faster loading programs & faster access to IE's temp internet files might speed up browsing. I have 512MB ram, so having the virtual memory on this drive wouldn't really matter. If I have it as a secondary drive, it will be on a separate channel possibly making transfers between it and the main drive faster.

Advice?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

what drive are you currently using for your primary master?

 

[lookin4dlz]

Should've included that

It's a 40GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X 7200 rpm 2mb cache. Also have a couple of 30GB Maxtor's and a WD 60GB, all 7200 rpm & 2mb cache. Thanks!

 

[viper118]

if you are really into the performance aspect, then yes, i would take the extra time to setup the new western digital as your primary hard drive..

however, if you don't mind the speeds at its current state, then i say leave it.. why change something that works???

there is a pretty nice performance increase with the 8mb cache.. so take that into account as well .. best thing to do is check out a few review sites and take a look at their benchmarks that they got and comapre it with other models...

 

[lookin4dlz]

Thanks, I went ahead & set it up as the main drive. The included WD disk-to-disk utility sucked though. I had to redo using Norton Ghost, which was faster & did an exact copy.