Seperate drive for operating system?

[pompalomp]

Hi, Just a quick question, is it better to have a separate drive for you operating system (Vista in my case) if so please name a good drive (not too expensive) which can hold vista 64 bit




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[icanhazburger]

This will hold vista no problems, it is expensive for its capacity, but not so hideously expensive its unaffordable. And its fast.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=410985

[staffsMike]

Just make a partition for windows. I would stick it on a 500GB drive which perform pretty much the same as the 36GB raptor in most area's anyway.

I would have a drive for apps and a drive for junk

[icanhazburger]

Just make a partition for windows. I would stick it on a 500GB drive which perform pretty much the same as the 36GB raptor in most area's anyway.

I would have a drive for apps and a drive for junk

Apps and OS?

Or Apps partition, OS partition, junk partition.

May try that.

[staffsMike]

Well if you can afford it a hard drive for each..or at least one for OS/ apps and one for junk but partitions work pretty well.

Zak33 has done a few threads on partitions and his theorys about how best to make them

[grizzla]

I use 3 drives, two older IDE 80GB drives, one for the OS, one for media files, my newer SATA-II drive is used for games as its access time means games load quicker (albeit marginally)

[IAmATeaf]

If you can afford it then go for it, it'll give you a performance increase. My home PC has always had a min of 2 drives, 1 for the OS and the other for the rest of my crap.

[Lucio]

Personally I plan on getting a drive for OS & Apps and will be storing my junk documents on a NAS box.

Has the small advantage I can get to my music and documents from the laptop if I'm feeling like a lazy day in bed, or if I wanna do some work from home I should be able to access it from there as well.

[amjedm]

I'm a bit of a sliencer and gave up on the idea of using 2 hard drives (one for OS, the other for data) due to the extra noise.

Now have one drive in a Scythe Quiet enclosure and it's very very quiet.