~£120 for harddrives

Arge · 27 Dec 2006 at 19:09

Hi,

I have budgeted around £120 for storage on my core2 rig i will be purchasing soon.

What would be the best combanation of drives to get ?

Im my current rig i have 2x120gb ide drives and i use one for the operating system, audio and pictures. I use the other for games and videos. Is this a good way to split the different applications ?

is it worth thinking of raid ?
for speed or safety ?

opinions/facts please !!
Ta

Arge · 27 Dec 2006 at 19:56

ok, so its obvious people think that 2 drives is the better way to go than 1 large drive.

now, should i set them up in raid or leave as 2 drives ?

would i see better performance if saved one soley for games ? or had the O/S and games on the same drive ?

whats the best configuration of the two drive set-up ?

sorry if that all sounds like crap !

Arge · 27 Dec 2006 at 21:04

Phill99,

Phil99 said:
A single 7200.10 is perfectly fast enough for Windows/Gaming etc

So as I have budgeted enough for two drives, would I see any improvement putting the o/s on one drive and games on the other ?

or both o/s and games on same drive ? (with maybe music,video etc. on the other)

or would it make no difference ?

Im just thinking along the lines of.... If info is required from the o/s and the game files at the same time it may be faster acessing it from 2 seperate drives rather than it all from one ?

With me ?

Arge · 28 Dec 2006 at 20:07

anyone ?

Arge · 29 Dec 2006 at 10:56

cheers for the advice guys, think i will go for 1x 320gb segate 7200.10.

I have 2x120gb maxtor IDE drives in my current pc which i will use one of to back up too as this doesnt need to be a fast drive. I will install everything else (system and games) on the segate.

does this sound like an ok way to do it ?