Which hard drive should be my main?

[simms]

Which hard drive should be my main?
The rest will be slave HDDs for file storage.

Seagate 7200.7 120GB - IDE
Seagate 7200.10 400GB - IDE
Seagate 7200.12 750GB - SATA

 

[JackMDS]

Hmm..

The best way is usually to use a relative fast small Drive as the System drive.

unfortunately your collection is Up Side down.

I would use the 400GB as the main drive in such situation and the 750GB as storage. The 120GB is kind of insignificant any way since it is only about 10% of the rest.

 

[Trashman]

I see jacks point of view, but i would use the fastest drive as boot which probably would the the 750gb, toss the 120gb out of system, buy external case and use 120gb as backup.

 

[nineball9]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Hmm..

The best way is usually to use a relative fast small Drive as the System drive.

unfortunately your collection is Up Side down.

My thoughts exactly. May as well use the 120GB drive for your main (boot) drive.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: nineball9

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Hmm..

The best way is usually to use a relative fast small Drive as the System drive.

unfortunately your collection is Up Side down.

My thoughts exactly. May as well use the 120GB drive for your main (boot) drive.

The problem with that is the smaller drive will be slower due to lower density on the platters. I would think that you would want your main drive to be as fast as possible.

I would probably partition off a bit of the largest drive for the OS/programs. I just wonder if there is a way to partition it so that you select the outer edge of the disk only, to maximize read speed.

 

[somethingsketchy]

I would recommend using the 750GB as your main drive, the 400GB as storage and find a cheap IDE-compatible external enclosure for the 120GB. Performance-wise the 750GB drive will be big enough to handle all of your tasks, but the 400GB can be used for back-ups or for storage of zipped/rar'd files/folders.

Hope this helps.

 

[heyheybooboo]

Tuff choice.

I'd stick with the 120Gb drive for OS/Apps. Keep it defragged. Remove 'My Computer' from the Desktop and replace it with a shortcut to one of your other drives for your file storage - direct all your programs to it.

I guess it also depends upon your work flow - the 400Gb drive could function as your capture/work drive and the 750Gb could function as your output/storage drive.

 

[JackMDS]

All of these Hoopla does not worth to save a used 120GB drive that goes for $20.

I doubt that you would see a real Notecible functional difference between the 400GB and the 750GFB when one of them is working as main drive especially if you partition the 750GB.