good morning all, I am thinking about adding a second disk drive to my system and would like your advice.

I currently run Windows XP, and play a lot of Internet poker. In the very near future I will be having an absolutely massive database and am planning for this future eventuality.

I am thinking that the best situation is i buy a second disk, and only have Poker applications on this , so that Windows doesn't stuff it up by writing millions of useless bits of information on itand in needing to be defragmented etc etc etc.

Am I on the right track?

What drive does everybody suggest that I buy?

what is the best speed to buy? Is there anything I should avoid?

All help much appreciated.


*CPU-Z 1.42 report file*
>
> *Processor(s)*
> *Number of processors* 1
> *Number of cores* 1 per processor
> *Number of threads* 1 (max 1) per processor
> *Name* AMD Athlon 64 3500+
> *Code Name* Venice
> *Specification* AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
> *Package* Socket 939
> *Family/Model/Stepping* F.F.2
> *Extended Family/Model* F.2F
> *Brand ID* 4
> *Core Stepping* DH-E6
> *Technology* 90 nm
> *Core Speed* 2211.5 MHz
> *Multiplier x Bus speed* 11.0 x 201.0 MHz
> *HT Link speed* 1005.2 MHz
> *Stock frequency* 2200 MHz
> *Instruction sets* MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
> *L1 Data cache (per processor)* 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
> *L1 Instruction cache (per processor)* 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
> *L2 cache (per processor)* 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
>
> *Chipset & Memory*
> *Northbridge* NVIDIA nForce4 rev. A3
> *Southbridge* NVIDIA nForce4 MCP rev. A3
> *Memory Type* DDR
> *Memory Size* 1024 MBytes
> *Memory Frequency* 201.0 MHz (CPU/11)
> *CAS# Latency (tCL)* 2.5 clocks
> *RAS# to CAS# (tRCD)* 3 clocks
> *RAS# Precharge (tRP)* 3 clocks
> *Cycle Time (tRAS)* 8 clocks
> *Bank Cycle Time (tRC)* 11 clocks
> *DRAM Idle Timer* 16 clocks
> *Command Rate (CR)* 2T
>
> *System*
> *System Manufacturer* System manufacturer
> *System Name* System Product Name
> *System S/N* System Serial Number
> *Mainboard Vendor* ASUSTeK Computer INC.
> *Mainboard Model* A8N-SLI DELUXE
> *BIOS Vendor* Phoenix Technologies, LTD
> *BIOS Version* ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 1013
> *BIOS Date* 07/26/2005
>
> *Memory SPD*
> *2* 1Gig, 2* 512Mb, all corsair
>
> *Software*
> *Windows Version* Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
> *DirectX Version* 9.0c

in the next week, I will be adding an opteron 185