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Hi, i'm about to build a new pc(1st build). But now i'm in a struggle to select a harddrive setup. And my question is does it makes sense to use a separate drive for the os and programs. And if so which drive do you suggest(I think 100gb will be sufficient). Many thanks for helping this newbie.

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I've always been a fan of the two drive setup. Smaller drive (say 80-120GB) for the OS and programs and a larger (500+GB) drive for data storage. This way, if your OS becomes corrupted, your data is (generally) safe.

Look for SATA 3.0 drives with either 16MB or 32MB cache.

-Wolf sends


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You may be interested in the following thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] hard-disks


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