New Hard Drive suggestions

[alman7272]

k, so making the new drive master wont kill off anything on the old drive even if it's made slave? because I'll allot 5 more GB to my system if that's ok.

[Beirut]

Hey Lars573,

Since you seem to be in the know; is it worth the trouble to have a second HD that you would use only for a specific game in order to get max FPS? I was thinking of getting an older, smaller 7200 HD and using that as an E: drive for just this reason.

What would you need on the second HD, besides the game itself, in order to run it?

[alman7272]

I know I'm not the person you addressed, but as far as I know, I think you'd only need to create a partition for the game to run on it. Basically, just install the drive, partition it, and then install the game into a directory on that drive and you should be set to go so long as your OS is installed on the other hard drive. That's what I think.

[Beirut]

Thanks.

Do you think a partitioned drive would have the same speed of access as a separate drive that had nothing on it but the game?

[Papewaio]

Paging files... you want those on the fastest drive... a 15k one if you have access to it.

The slower the harddrive and the rate at which you can access that memory the slower your page files and hence slower your machine will run under load.

[alman7272]

Oh...well both drives are 7200 RPM, but the Sata is 3.0Gb/s

anyway...doesn't matter. having some complications atm since Windows doesn't like letting people custom install into another drive path, so I have to wait40 minutes for a reinstall on my old drive... then...trick Windows into installing on my new one by changing the letters.

and to Beirut:

I don't know, but I would think that it would seeing as it wouldn't have as many other processes straining it. but, I do not know. there are still other factors like the memory involved and if the page file (virtual memory) is strained, you may not get much faster but I'd assume you should be able to go faster.