Few Q's before I order?!

Ice Rich · 26 Dec 2006 at 14:40

Hi all,

I currently only have a 36gig raptor so I want to upgrade. I plan to use my raptor for apps/windows. An new drive fro other stuff.

Will I notice a speed decrease when going to 2 drives? I dont want to run in raid or anything. Also, say for example I had data for a game that could be modded (i.e oblivion) on the new drive but the install for the game was on my raptor - would there be any problems loading from different drives?

I plan to get the seagate 250.10 sata drve - good choice?

Thanks

semi-pro waster · 26 Dec 2006 at 14:51

The Seagate 7200.10 is a good choice in terms of outright speed, some can be noisy apparantly but I doubt it is much of an issue coming from a Raptor. You shouldn't notice any speed decrease because of having two drives but you may find that some games can't operate with the data being split across both, in fact I'm not totally sure that any can unless they have their own internal system for checking where the data is to come from.

Ice Rich · 26 Dec 2006 at 14:55

semi-pro waster said:
The Seagate 7200.10 is a good choice in terms of outright speed, some can be noisy apparantly but I doubt it is much of an issue coming from a Raptor. You shouldn't notice any speed decrease because of having two drives but you may find that some games can't operate with the data being split across both, in fact I'm not totally sure that any can unless they have their own internal system for checking where the data is to come from.

Thanks for post,

So its best to keep all games/applications solely on 1 drive?

semi-pro waster · 26 Dec 2006 at 15:07

Yes, but only because I don't know of many applications that can cope with being split up. You could however consider putting the page file for Windows onto a separate drive as that ought to speed up the system (assuming your page file gets used at all, if you have a lot of Ram it may never be needed). Don't ask me how to do it though, although I run multiple hard drives I've never bothered, there will be plenty of pages detailing how to do it after a quick Google if you wish to try.