Questions about hard drives

Ancient_2

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If i have two hard drives? one very slow one with windows on it and one new fast one (not a ssd) with things like games and chrome on it, will having windows on a slow drive make the system still as slow? or will the games be running faster than windows?
 
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What i would actually recommend to you is buy a SSD, stick your OS on that ( you WILL notice the difference) then stick all your games onto the faster HD you already have. I have had issues in the passed with slow old HD and the best thing i ever did was get an SSD, hand down it will make a huge impact on your computer, and eliminate you current issue. But on the other hand, what is you GPU?

rkzhao

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It's generally better to have Windows on the faster drive. The main benefit of a fast storage drive that's seen in a PC is windows boot up times. It'll also help speed up background operations where the OS is writing or reading data from disk.

For games, honestly, with the way most games are optimized, a storage drive makes little difference in performance other than load times. Most of the performance in game is more determined by your memory than what drive it's installed on.
 

Ancient_2

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no its has actual hardware problem something about missing/bad sectors causing games to drop to 0 fps so would this propriety come over to the games on the new drive because the OS installed on the bad drive?

 

trizzyyt

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What i would actually recommend to you is buy a SSD, stick your OS on that ( you WILL notice the difference) then stick all your games onto the faster HD you already have. I have had issues in the passed with slow old HD and the best thing i ever did was get an SSD, hand down it will make a huge impact on your computer, and eliminate you current issue. But on the other hand, what is you GPU?
 
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