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Mac Pro HD questions

  • 19-06-2008 11:07am
    #1
    grizzly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭


    This post involves Windows (sorry), but I posted it here because it has the greatest chance of being answered here, rather that gaming or Windows forums

    In my Mac Pro I've got 3 HDs — 2 for the mac side and 1 80gb for windows. I recently installed AoC (a huge 30 gig install) and had to delete other stuff just to preform a defrag. So my question is — can I install a HD in the final slot (a large fast one, I'm thinking 500gb) and then install games on to this bigger HD?

    1. will it hit performance having the XP on one HD and games on the other?

    2. will I have to involve bootcamp to set up this new HD – or can do it all through XP?


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  • #2
    Thumper Long
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭Thumper Long


    Performance should increase as they will be on separate buses and the combination of read/writes from the games and the OS will be spread over 2 disks. Im not sure about the extra HDD but I presume that there should be no problem formatting it from the XP boot environment without the need to involve bootcamp.


  • #3
    grizzly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    Thanks for the reply!


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