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Which Is The Better Hard Drive To Install OS/Games On?

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arh2o

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I own two hard drives: (both 16MB Cache)
WD SE16 640GB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822136218
Seagate 7200.10 250GB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822148262

Seagate is a single platter of 250GB
WD has two-320GB platters.

My question is, which would be faster in running my operating system and games? (Booting up, shutting down, running OS, loading levels, etc). I'm planning on using one HD for my OS/Games and one HD for storage.

I assume that it's the hard drive with the faster latency? According to Newegg, the Seagate has a 4.16ms avg latency. However the WD6400AAKS does not list its latency and I cannot find anything online about it.

While I do think the WD6400AAKS is faster overall, it also has two platters, albeit each platter being bigger than my Seagates. Since the OS is small and I don't have too many games I want to install, would it be better to run them off my single platter Seagate?

Thanks in advance 🙂
 
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