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Post Date: 2008-01-04
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    Posted: 04 Jan 2008 at 3:06pm
I have a quick question.  I have noticed with some member's signatures at the bottom of their posts they have two hard drives, the first will be a small quick 150mb 10k speed raptor and then they will have a second larger and slower one.  What purpose does this serve and what difference does it make against one 500mb hard drive?
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I too would like to know the answer to this.
 
I do know that some people want faster speeds for games to load from DVD so they go with the fast drive for that. 
 
I picked only one "small" hard drive (160). Why? because in my old computer I had the drive die two times in 7 years.  Its bad enough reloading my games now.  I do not keep quanties of stuff on my computer.  Just games and such.  Everything else goes to CD.


Edited by Dog Lover - 04 Jan 2008 at 3:14pm
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Generally the 10k drives simply perform a lot faster than the 7200rpm drives. As such, most people prefer drives at that speed for doing the "hard work".

Much of your game loading involves reading files from the hard drive, using your temp/swap file as it loads/unloads from memory and a lot of drive grinding as needed.

10k RPM drives are more expensive than their 7200rpm counterparts - and the bigger you make a drive (generally) the more clogged up it gets and (generally) the slower it performs anyways.. so keeping things compact and quick is at the heart of it.

The other drive is for storage - games, original installs, MP3s, static data like your documents, etc..

It's also nice to have a second drive so as soon as you get your C: drive all lined up the way you like it.. you can Ghost/Clone it to your other drive and then just pop back to your "Happy State" after you've spent a year or so running it into the ground =)

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The main purpose of this is for fast load times and backup.

The raptor is used to hold the operating system and applications for quicker load times. Some people use the raptor for storage as well just in case the second drive fails.

And the other slower drives are used for image files and storage.

Things go a lot faster with one hdd running the applications and the other accessing/storing the files.

If the raptor gets corrupted, you can restore it from one of the images stored on the second HDD.

It's safer for your documents to be stored on the other HDD. Since the raptor is the main drive with all the software, it is more likely to fail.
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