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joarmac   10-16-2008 at 05:23:37 PM

The question I have is, is it still best to have two drives over one?

A primary (smaller but faster) drive for the OS and favorite program and a second (larger but slower) drive for data?
example:
Primary Drive - Western Digital 74GB Raptor 10,000RPM
Secondary Drive - 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 32MB Cache

OR

Is it good enough to have a larger drive that's been partitioned into two parts?
2 Partitions on - 750GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 32MB Cache

The computer will be used mostly for gaming.
Thanks for the info.

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Zoom77   10-17-2008 at 06:25:32 AM
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It all depends on what "good enough" means for you .

I used to have a Raptor in my system and after it failed I replaced it with a "normal" 7200 Hard drive. The difference is noticeable.

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roadrunner197069   10-17-2008 at 07:10:08 AM
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Raid 0 for OS/aPPS big HD for backups.

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englandr753   10-17-2008 at 07:32:41 AM
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+1 to roadrunners reply.

You can stripe but be aware that when you do that if one of the drives go bad and isnt backed up then you are in trouble.

You can mirror and this will hide one of your identical drives in the background and everything is automatically backed up. The problem with that is, it takes 2-500gig hard drives to get 500 gigs of data storage.

It will depend on what is most important to you. Unless you have some special software that needs to access read/write capabilities at max speeds then you should be fine just getting a decent hard drive and let it go at that.

It will depend on your needs and your budget...

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