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Should I use a small os drive & large storage drive? Or should I partition?
Just bought a new maxtor 300gb hd as my old hd has started to die. Had to go through the process of building a new xp install (updates, programs, settings etc) and then coppied all of my data off the old hd into a folder called storage.
Seems to be working, however I was looking at some reviews of the hard disk and one person said:
"I would recommend you get this as an aditional drive to store lots of media (movies, pictures, tv, videos etc), but not as a main drive as with large capacities the seek time degrades over time, thus loading, copying things will become slower the more stuff you pile onto it. I would get a smaller 80gb for that job."
Is this true. Do you guy run a two hard disk setup in this way? Should I get a smaller drive for os e.g. raptor or is this overkill?
Can I reach the same effect by partioning my drive?
Just bought a new maxtor 300gb hd as my old hd has started to die. Had to go through the process of building a new xp install (updates, programs, settings etc) and then coppied all of my data off the old hd into a folder called storage.
Seems to be working, however I was looking at some reviews of the hard disk and one person said:
"I would recommend you get this as an aditional drive to store lots of media (movies, pictures, tv, videos etc), but not as a main drive as with large capacities the seek time degrades over time, thus loading, copying things will become slower the more stuff you pile onto it. I would get a smaller 80gb for that job."
Is this true. Do you guy run a two hard disk setup in this way? Should I get a smaller drive for os e.g. raptor or is this overkill?
Can I reach the same effect by partioning my drive?
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