Can adding games to separate hard drive increase performance?

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I was looking around in my closet and I found that I have an extra hard drive. I was wondering if it's possible for me to connect it to my pc even though I already have a hard drive installed? If so, could I use it to store games and would it increase my gaming performance having them stored on a separate drive?

It's a Seagate Hard drive, with 7200 RPM and 160 GB(s) of space.
 
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Yes. You can reformat and blow all that old stuff away.
Just don't blow away old family pictures.
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It won't increase performance. But it will save space on your main drive
 
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Oh okay, I was just wondering because one of my friends who plays Starcraft II told me he gained more FPS from putting it on a separate drive.

Would I just have to plug it into the connector and it would be ready to go, or would I have to install anything to use it?

 
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Power down, plug it in, power up. You either have a new D drive, or maybe have to go into Disk Management and give it a drive letter.

After that..install something to it.

And whenever someone says "I got better FPS by doing X!"...ask him to show you the money and test results.
 
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Okay, thanks. One more thing though, if I remember correctly I had a bunch of crap installed on that hard drive years back. So, when I install the drive again I can reformat it right?
 
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Yes. You can reformat and blow all that old stuff away.
Just don't blow away old family pictures.
 
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Well, thanks for help man.
 
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