Recording to a 500GB Hard Drive?

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I'm gonna be recording with fraps and I heard it's better to have two hard drives, one to run the games and the other for writing the files to. So I ordered a 1tb Hard Drive, which one should I record on? My 500GB or my 1TB? I thought of switching all my stuff from my 500GB hard drive to my 1TB and recording to my 500GB. My new 1TB will be a Western Digital

Monitor - Dell st2220l (Temp)
Cpu - AMD FX 8350 8-CORE
Gpu - Asus GTX 660 2GB
Motherboard - Asus M597 R2.0
Ram - 16GB
Hard Drive - Western Digital WD Blue 500GB
Power Supply - Thermaltake TR2 700W
Case - Fractal design r4
Mouse - Razer Deathadder
Keyboard - Razer DeathStalker
Os - Windows 7 Pro (64 bit)
 
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You didn't list the RPM's or the Cache of the 2 Hard Drives. Instead just give us the model numbers. As far as running the game on one and recording to another there will be a small improvement but there's other hardware that's just as important to this and one is Ram, Not having enough ram can cause poor performance while you're gaming and recording.
 
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Agreed. An SSD would help to take some pressure off the rest of your system, but the uncompressed video that FRAPS puts out is just... HUGE. And it has to pass through your RAM, and in my experience the bottleneck is more often the rest of your system than your storage.
 
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Sorry I didn't think it was needed, i'm new to pcs and stuff so basically I should of gotten an SSD? Also I added specs into my thread.
 
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SSD's are fast but you're still forgetting about the ram which you haven't told us.
 
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It's DDR3 8 GB's that's all I really know.
 
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8 Gig should be fine then. If it was less then that you would hit a drop in FPS the moment you start recording. If you plan on doing a lot of game recording I would suggest you look into one of those external capture cards.
 
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Thanks! Will do. Also should I get an SSD over time and put my windows 7 on that? Have all my games on my 1tb, record to a 1tb and a 500GB for random stuff?
 
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All a SSD is gonna do you for Windows is cut down on boot time. That's it. Maybe put a few of your well played games on there if you have room will also cut down on load times like maps and such. The rest can go on the 1tb and the 500 you could buy a external harddrive enclosure and put it in there as a external storage for like stuff that's important like documents or maybe music. Just incase something happens on your main pc and you lose important stuff cause it wasn't backed up.
 
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All my stuff will be backed up to a usb :) and thanks for the info!
 
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