Second Hard Drive Needed?

[tcb263]

if i was to add a second hdd w/o using a raid configuration would i see a difference in speed? the reason i ask this is because right now i have an 80gig hdd which ive used 3/4 of and ive noticed that it takes much longer to search for and open files. i was thinking i could get an extra 40 gig to install my os on and use the other for all my games, movies, music, etc. any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[ripken204]

well kinda yes, only b/c the hard drives write on their disks from the outside to the inside and it reads the outside faster than the inside. so in the hdd that u have now, the files that are in the inner part of the disk will read slower than if they were on the outer part of the disk. i would go for the extra drive tho, and partition it and have the OS in a 5-10 gb partition on the outermost part of the disk so that ur comp will boot fast.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=40223

[puntoMX]

When you buy a second one let Windows put his Swap-file on the second drive, if you keep it in one partition it will be faster because of bigger blocks. Make it also a fixed Swap-file, then start moving games and multimedia stuff like music, movies etc.

You will notice some performance boost .

[rendrag]

or you could just defrag your original hard drive and see a speed increase just by doing that

[ripken204]

if ur in this forum and dont defrag then theres gota be sumtin wrong with u

[puntoMX]

I don´t defrag, now I know that there is some thing wrong with me B)