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Seperate Hard Drive?

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June 24, 2014 10:59:36 AM

I am currently using a 5400 RPM Western Digital HDD. I do have a 7200 RPM Seagate laying around. My question relates to what should be installed to what. Should windows be installed on the faster drive or my recordings and games be installed on the faster one. If those who aren't familiar with dxtory, it is a game recorder that uses the write speed of your hard drive you determine the video performance, which is best to record on a second hard drive. So to end the question, should my games and recordings be on the faster one, or windows and documents be on the faster one leaving the recordings and games on teh slower HDD? Or is 2 hard drives unnecessary and just use 7200 RPM for both windows, games and recordings? Please don't advise me to buy and faster one to replace my WD, as money is a factor. Thanks!

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a b G Storage
June 24, 2014 12:01:11 PM

If you don't have a backup, then I would use the slow one for backup, and load everything on the fast one.

If you have a backup, and this is just a question of no space, then the operating system, programs and games on the fast one, and documents, on the slow one.

If you have enough memory for most games, the hard drive only comes into play when you load the game.

Something like flight simulator can benefit from a separate hard drive, because it constantly loads scenery.

I doubt the 5400RPM would even help with flight sim though.
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June 24, 2014 12:13:07 PM

Let's just say I have a backup already. Speaking of dxtory and how the write speed depends on the recording performance. Windows and documents merge together into one hard drive, games and recordings on the other. Would the 7200 RPM benefit the performance of my daily web browsing and windows speed overall, or is it best to optimize games to load faster and better recording files?
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a b G Storage
June 24, 2014 12:30:58 PM

Assuming these are SATA drives

Don't know anything about Dxtory, but I can't believe it would speed up anything, with a slow hard drive in the mix.
Browsing shouldn't use the hard drive at all, unless you have a severe lack of memory, or are down loading a large file.

Don't forget, when you load a program, or a document, it loads it to the Operating System hard drive, no matter what hard drive it resides on.
The computer only goes back, to that other hard drive, if you don't have enough RAM to hold the Program.
Flight Sim never has enough RAM for that.
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June 24, 2014 1:12:42 PM

So since the hard drive speed only benefits the load times of games and barely has an effect on desktop use, im assuming you would choose the 7200RPM for games and 5400 RPM for Windows to be installed on and other personal files?
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a b G Storage
June 24, 2014 1:27:24 PM

Why would you want Windows on the slow drive. Unless you want slow boot time
If there is a most important thing to be installed on the fast drive, it is windows, and games the second.



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June 24, 2014 5:38:49 PM

Thanks for the help. I will sure hope for benefit =)
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