Partitioning two HDD optimally

Amrit · 9 Jun 2009 at 02:20

Hey guys I have a question for you all.
Basically I had to reinstall windows and I have two SATA HDD.
One is a Seagate 7200.11 750GB HDD (Model:ST3750330AS) and another is the Western Digital 750GB Caviar SE16 (Model: WD7500AAKS)
What I want now is to place windows programs etc optimally on the HDD.
Like the best HDD to have windows on and where on the drive (front, middle, end), and also where to put paging files and program files.

I have looked on the net and the forums but cant seem to find a precise answer. So please can someone help me.

Thanks
Amrit

Amrit · 12 Jun 2009 at 19:25

Lanz · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:24

Benchmark each drive using HDtune, find out which one is best, then make a 50GB partition on it and put your OS on. Put your page file on both disks.

musicman53 · 13 Jun 2009 at 08:46

Lanz said:
Benchmark each drive using HDtune, find out which one is best, then make a 50GB partition on it and put your OS on. Put your page file on both disks.

No good putting pagefile on both disks at all.
You need to have a single pagefile on it's own partition on a drive that does NOT have windows on it.

Amrit · 13 Jun 2009 at 10:06

Lanz said:
Benchmark each drive using HDtune, find out which one is best, then make a 50GB partition on it and put your OS on. Put your page file on both disks.

Ok so when i HD tune them...what result am i looking at for windows? Random Access Time or max speed? And also what for program files and paging?

EDIT: Oh and also if i have stuff on the HDD already will HDTune be affected?

Thanks

Lanz · 13 Jun 2009 at 10:12

Amrit said:
Ok so when i HD tune them...what result am i looking at for windows? Random Access Time or max speed? And also what for program files and paging?

EDIT: Oh and also if i have stuff on the HDD already will HDTune be affected?

Thanks

Just dont worry about it, they are both simular disks so it matters little which disk you use or how you configure it.