maximum performance given my situation

[The One]

Hi guys,

I was running out of room on my aging IDE Seagate (http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,579,00.html) and snapped up a Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 800JD SATA with 8mb of cache from OCUK when I saw it in the B-grade section.

My question is what is the best way of arranging my data etc in order to get the best performance in windows/games?

I guess that would be to make 2 partitions on the WD, one for Windows and one for Games and use the old one for storage etc? If I do that will the performance boost be worth reinstalling Windows and all my programs on the new drive or will it be negligible?

Thanks for your help.

 

[The One]

Hmm, interesting. I have 3 partitions on my old 120GB HDD (Windows, Games + storage, programs). Is there any way to transfer just the Windows partition onto the new drive?

I forgot to say that I actually have an external HDD for backing up important data (e-mails, browser settings, documents and other application data) for all the PCs on my LAN so I don't really need a 120GB for backup