running two harddrives

hail. · 08-13-2007, 10:31 AM

Lots of people are telling me that I should run one hard drive for my OS and one for all of my programs. My two hard drives:

160GB 7200RPM SATA2
80GB 7200RPM ATA-133

My question is which hard drive should I use for my OS and which should I use for everything else

b1gapl · 08-13-2007, 10:34 AM

Usually it's one hard drive for the OS and applications, and the other for storage of music, games, pictures, and what not. So you should use the 160GB for storage, and the 80GB for OS and applications, or programs. Generally the bigger partition or hard drive is used for storage. Or since your 160GB is an SATA2 drive, maybe that should be for OS and programs. It will load a little faster, but you'd probably won't notice.

kobe24 · 08-13-2007, 11:32 AM

i would use the 80 for os and apps, 160 for storage like bigapple said

wrestlingnrj · 08-13-2007, 11:41 AM

I would run the SATA drive for your OS and the ATA for your Storage in most situations, but since you're SATA is the larger of the two I would suggest using it for the storage and the ATA for the OS. I have found the best way to run 2 HDD's though is in RAID 0 configuration, but you would need another 160GB SATA for that.

veedubfreak · 08-13-2007, 11:41 AM

Reasoning behind using a different drive for OS is lots of people, myself included reinstall on a fairly regular basis. Its just easier to reinstall windows sometimes than to try to figure out what piece of crap spyware/adware got in when you werent looking and how to get rid of it :P

kobe24 · 08-13-2007, 11:43 AM

agreed^ lol

phucng_10 · 08-13-2007, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by veedubfreak

Reasoning behind using a different drive for OS is lots of people, myself included reinstall on a fairly regular basis. Its just easier to reinstall windows sometimes than to try to figure out what piece of crap spyware/adware got in when you werent looking and how to get rid of it :P

You can always create Partitions in the setup process.

AnthraX · 08-13-2007, 04:34 PM

Does the 160GB SATA drive have 8MB cache or 16mb? If it's 16mb, install the OS on that. You WILL notice a difference with Windows load times.

If you need the 160GB drive for storage, just create a small (~8GB) partition on your SATA drive for Windows, and the rest for storage. Then you just install your apps on the 80GB.

hail. · 08-13-2007, 05:41 PM

nah the cache on the 160 is 8mb- thx for all the help btw

taintedplay · 08-13-2007, 08:16 PM

what im doing right now is i have three hd's
250, 160, and a 40. i have xp with all my progs on the 250, stroage on the 160, and xp with the very basic programs (antivirus, drivers ect) on the 40. if my 250 ever has something happen to it, while im trying to fix it, i can just boot from the 40 and be off clean. I just got the 40 off some computer i ripped apart.

08-13-2007, 10:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
hail. Newb Techie Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 2	running two harddrives Lots of people are telling me that I should run one hard drive for my OS and one for all of my programs. My two hard drives: 160GB 7200RPM SATA2 80GB 7200RPM ATA-133 My question is which hard drive should I use for my OS and which should I use for everything else

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b1gapl Commander SMod Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 11,801	Re: running two harddrives Usually it's one hard drive for the OS and applications, and the other for storage of music, games, pictures, and what not. So you should use the 160GB for storage, and the 80GB for OS and applications, or programs. Generally the bigger partition or hard drive is used for storage. Or since your 160GB is an SATA2 drive, maybe that should be for OS and programs. It will load a little faster, but you'd probably won't notice. __________________ Recommended PC Components Guide Potentially the longest thread in history!! Tech-Forums Official 3DMark06/05/03 Top List Last edited by b1gapl; 08-13-2007 at 10:37 AM.

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kobe24 Monster Techie Join Date: May 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 1,434	Re: running two harddrives i would use the 80 for os and apps, 160 for storage like bigapple said __________________ 3D MARK 06 14,063 on vista, use to get it p4 2.8ghz Asus p4SD-LA 6800gs ultra 1.5gb ddr400 oem 120gb hdd The Techies' Bible

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wrestlingnrj True Techie Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 163	Re: running two harddrives I would run the SATA drive for your OS and the ATA for your Storage in most situations, but since you're SATA is the larger of the two I would suggest using it for the storage and the ATA for the OS. I have found the best way to run 2 HDD's though is in RAID 0 configuration, but you would need another 160GB SATA for that. __________________ Intel Pent D 820 Smithfield - Intel D945PSN eVGA 7800GT OC - 2GB OCZ Gold Series DDR2 Logitech Z-5500 I like to feel my video games

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veedubfreak Official DFI Bricker Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 6,267	Re: running two harddrives Reasoning behind using a different drive for OS is lots of people, myself included reinstall on a fairly regular basis. Its just easier to reinstall windows sometimes than to try to figure out what piece of crap spyware/adware got in when you werent looking and how to get rid of it :P __________________ EVGA x58 i7 920 EVGA GTX260 SLI 3x2gb Patriot Viper DDR3-1600 @7-7-7-20 1T Corsair 750TX MountainMods Ufo Horizontal 2x Swiftech 320 2x Swiftech 655 2x MM 3bay res 2x XSPC FC Blocks Swiftech GTZ Have you heard? http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f6/hav...-heard-187280/

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kobe24 Monster Techie Join Date: May 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 1,434	Re: running two harddrives agreed^ lol __________________ 3D MARK 06 14,063 on vista, use to get it p4 2.8ghz Asus p4SD-LA 6800gs ultra 1.5gb ddr400 oem 120gb hdd The Techies' Bible

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AnthraX Ultra Techie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 982	Re: running two harddrives Does the 160GB SATA drive have 8MB cache or 16mb? If it's 16mb, install the OS on that. You WILL notice a difference with Windows load times. If you need the 160GB drive for storage, just create a small (~8GB) partition on your SATA drive for Windows, and the rest for storage. Then you just install your apps on the 80GB. __________________ <br><br><font color=\"black\"><b>There's No Place Like </b></font><font color=\"red\"><b>127.0.0.1</b></font><br>

08-13-2007, 05:41 PM	#9 (permalink)
hail. Newb Techie Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 2	Re: running two harddrives nah the cache on the 160 is 8mb- thx for all the help btw

08-13-2007, 08:16 PM	#10 (permalink)
taintedplay lolwut? Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,000	Re: running two harddrives what im doing right now is i have three hd's 250, 160, and a 40. i have xp with all my progs on the 250, stroage on the 160, and xp with the very basic programs (antivirus, drivers ect) on the 40. if my 250 ever has something happen to it, while im trying to fix it, i can just boot from the 40 and be off clean. I just got the 40 off some computer i ripped apart.

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