which HD to install games on?

[Calculator83]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I have a single terabyte hard drive and these things are no longer an issue for me.
Had to sell off a bunch of lesser hard drives to friends but it was worth it.

Umm. You should have at least 3.
Small one for OS

One for incoming downloads/storage

Another one for decompressing, storage, installed programs

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Calculator83

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I have a single terabyte hard drive and these things are no longer an issue for me.
Had to sell off a bunch of lesser hard drives to friends but it was worth it.

Umm. You should have at least 3.
Small one for OS

One for incoming downloads/storage

Another one for decompressing, storage, installed programs

Ummmm, no, I shouldnt.

I've played that game before. Right up until I had my 1 terabyte.
Its all bullshit. I even had a 74GB Raptor for the games.
I didnt get shit.

My system is a little more stable and my game loads are MUCH faster with a single, huge drive that gets defragged once a month.

 

[minmaster]

huh so you're saying your TB HD outperforms the Raptor? what are you exactly trying to say?

 

[FuryofFive]

i dunno, maybe its easier for the guy to ahve 1 large drive isntead of many drives

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: minmaster
huh so you're saying your TB HD outperforms the Raptor? what are you exactly trying to say?

I think he's saying you just don't benefit much from splitting things out onto separate drives.

It's also quite possible the TB drive does outperform the raptor. That's a first gen raptor and TB drives of any given make/model tend to have very high throughput due to their data density (A rule with exceptions of course).

Something to keep in mind when trying to squeak out that tiny sliver of performance with multiple drives: Don't go putting them all on the same controller unless you're talking about SCSI or NCQ SATA.

 

[FuryofFive]

in my case i use 3 500gb drives with 4 partitions... 1 boot/storage,1game/storage, and one storage

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

Originally posted by: minmaster
i have 2 HDs. the smaller one i have the OS and some programs installed and a big drive i have all my other data like music and movies.

i have the paging file allocated on the bigger non-OS HD

which HD should i install games on for maximum performance?

You can add a page file to each HD, that way the OS will use whichever one had the lightest load.

I'd just pu the games on the 2nd physical HD, not the one witht he OS. Just add a swap file to the OS drive as well, then you are set.