[XIII]

I am wondering if i have two separate hard disk. If i install the operating on the first harddisk and then i install all my games on the second hard disk. When i try to launch a games will it load faster? Unluckily i have only one hard disk, so can't try it out.

I am wondering because in theory both the hard disk spin, the operating system and games get the full speed of a hard disk.

Can anyone tell me the answer? Oh by the way please post your personal hard disk optimization tips too.

Thanks in advance. :wink:

[Dark Biene]

so...
my pc is configed this way

i have Windows on the first HD in the first partition
and my games are on the second HD

i think, a little bit performance boost should be able
but i think it´s more important where the "SWAP" dat is
because this date is used if u play ur games
and this Dat is also on the first HD in an extra partition

mhhh.....short: a little bit of performance should be able
but i think u get more if u use RAID 0 with the 2 HD´s
that´s a bigger performance increase

[Mertsch]

its not that signifficant, but yes games will load faster, if the IDE port can provide it ...
means if ya got and UDMA 2 disk you will not profit ... if its UDMA 5 or 6 disk and the 2nd one also is a 5 or 6 one you can make full use of the performance of both ...
just check you device manager for information ...
RAID is the 2nd way to get more performance ... but also the much more complicate one compared to just connect an additional HDD ...

but do not expect and very high performance increase

[XIII]

Will it be comparable with the WD raptor which have 10k RPM?

[El_Coyote]

you'll need to identical discs for raid.
and faster games? get more ram, so it wont have to use the swap space... harddrives are slow.. swapping is a pain.

[Mertsch]

you cann't compare this to anything ... it will gain a bit of performance ... but you can't say how much and where and when ....

you want raid or not that is the question ....

[ThudZ3ro]

you can get a slight performance increase on a single drive by moving the swap file to it's own separate partition (and having only the swap/page file on that partition)...

[XIII]

Thanks guys will i get performance boost by creating smaller partition?