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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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This will hold vista no problems, it is expensive for its capacity, but not so hideously expensive its unaffordable. And its fast.
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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?Quote:
Originally Posted by staffsMike
Or Apps partition, OS partition, junk partition.
May try that.
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
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)
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.
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.
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.