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single or two HDs??

hairball · 2005-10-23 10:06:11

Building a new rig and was just thinking about buying a hard drive exclusively for the OS and small apps and then a bigger one for games, movies etc.......is this actually a benifit??

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23-10-2005 11:06am

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hairball

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Building a new rig and was just thinking about buying a hard drive exclusively for the OS and small apps and then a bigger one for games, movies etc.......is this actually a benifit??

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#2 23-10-2005 11:54am
Endurance Man

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Very much so, sooner or later your OS is going to need to be reinstalled, having the second HDD is very handy to store files and other sutff on.

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#3 23-10-2005 1:25pm
hairball

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nice one man, thnx:)

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#4 23-10-2005 6:52pm
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TBH if you are using two physical HD's , they would be put to better use with RAID in the PC, or throw the "storage" one in a NAS box.

Partitioning would be a quieter, cooler and cheaper way of keeping your OS seperate from storage. Although technically it could slow the system down as it will be seeking within a physical HD. In the real world though, it makes very little difference.

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