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    Which drive should the OS go onto ?

    I have got 3 SATA drives.

    One is coming with the dell PC from hotukdeals (with the 22" Widescreen monitor)


    Which it lists as 320 gig - 7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurstâ„¢ cache

    The other two are

    Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB S300 16 MB Serial ATA-300

    and a

    Maxtor DiamondMax 10 - Hard drive - 300 GB SATA-150 - 7200 rpm - buffer: 16 MB

    I take it the Seagate is the fastest, but which of the drives should be the OS ?

    The others are just used for storage, and running the odd application / game ?

    Not really sure I need 1TB, but I am looking at that later, at the minute I just need to get all the drives in one place to sort the data out.

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    you won't notice the difference so doesn't matter.
    It is Inevitable.....


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    you would not notice much difference the Seagate I would suggest as it is the fastest and most reliable
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    I'd be very surprised if it shipped with three hard drives that dissimilar, it's a very odd way indeed to build up a computer.

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    Personally, I'd put a smallish partition on the Seagate for the OS, that way, if need be, it's relatively simple to just reformat that part and re-install (if you need to reinstall as often as I do !!)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucio View Post
    I'd be very surprised if it shipped with three hard drives that dissimilar, it's a very odd way indeed to build up a computer.
    One drive is shipped with the PC, the other two are in my existing PC

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