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Hi, I have a single 1 x 320gb seagate hard drive, it has 2 platters consisting of 160gb. The average read is around 67mb/sec which I guess is average. But more to the point...I need extra storage space and so have been browsing a few TB hard drives and have learnt along the way that the less platters obviously the better in terms of speed and reliability. So I was wondering on how I could do this, I could
A) Use 320gb harddrive as an OS drive and the 1TB as data drive
B) Use a samsung 1TB drive as main drive and partition it into 2 so 100gb OS and 900gb Data.
But not sure which to use. Obviously using option B will give me faster speeds due to the platter sizes on samsungs. But then if the 1TB drive failed its quite a lot of information to be lost as i dont have a external backup.
What are your thoughts? If you already own a 320gb drive currently serving as a OS and data drive, and wanted more storage (buy a new bigger HDD), how would you setup/partition your storage drive?
A) Use 320gb harddrive as an OS drive and the 1TB as data drive
B) Use a samsung 1TB drive as main drive and partition it into 2 so 100gb OS and 900gb Data.
But not sure which to use. Obviously using option B will give me faster speeds due to the platter sizes on samsungs. But then if the 1TB drive failed its quite a lot of information to be lost as i dont have a external backup.
What are your thoughts? If you already own a 320gb drive currently serving as a OS and data drive, and wanted more storage (buy a new bigger HDD), how would you setup/partition your storage drive?