so... two hard drives?

HungryHippos · 26 Apr 2008 at 23:14

I'm looking to change my 4 H.D.D's down to 2 so was planning the following:

C:\ drive for Windows/applications etc
D:\ drive for Windows pagefile/random data

for my D:\ drive I am lookign to buy a Samsung F1 1TB drive as I have a lot of data to keep but for my C:\ drive would I be better with a smaller drive? would it be quicker for windows to access and run?

I currently use a 74GB Raptor for windows (very old pre 150GB Raptor X) and it's too noisy for me so I am going to replace it and the Samsung ones seem well praised + quiet

AbsenceJam · 26 Apr 2008 at 23:28

Smaller != quicker.
Speed of hard drives comes down to platter density (and spindle speed), the F1 uses the largest platters around (334GB) so it's very fast. The 1 and 2 platter versions are no faster.

HungryHippos · 26 Apr 2008 at 23:30

so 2 x 1TB drives would be quicker than 1 x 1TB and 1 x 320GB?

would have thought the 1TB drive would be quicker for moving large files etc but the smaller one better for windows etc due to being smaller but hell what do I know?

AbsenceJam · 26 Apr 2008 at 23:38

I should have said size != speed.
All the Samsung F1's that use the larger platters are the same speed or within a couple of percent of each other so the 320GB, 640GB and 1TB are as fast as each other. The 750GB one isn't as quick (250GB platters), not sure about the 500GB.

1kiwi · 27 Apr 2008 at 00:34

I use a 74gb raptor for my OS partition and a 1 tb F1 for everything else. The raptor does feel 'snappier' whilst the F1 is seriously quick in terms of read speeds.