1.) I was told, that since I have to hard drives on my computer, that having my OS on one drive and my games on another computer would work better. Is this true?
2.) Would it be more efficient to install WoW Reader on my OS hard drive or my cataloge drive?
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1. not that much better. and it could be worse.
2. WoW reader is such a simple program (as compared to, say, a game) i think that any performance gains/losses would be invisible. unless you can see a hummingbird's wings.
2. WoW reader is such a simple program (as compared to, say, a game) i think that any performance gains/losses would be invisible. unless you can see a hummingbird's wings.
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1) The main bennifit to having your OS on one partition/hard drive and your programs on another is incase your OS crashes and you have to reformat. Then you only have to reformat the OS drive and leave your programs intact.
2) Install it wherever you want to, as long as you have around a gig of free space left on your OS drive for its swap file it doesn't matter which drive you install programs to.
2) Install it wherever you want to, as long as you have around a gig of free space left on your OS drive for its swap file it doesn't matter which drive you install programs to.
What would make things really go faster if you got 3 drives. ;)
The setup I had until recently is a 10gig IDE boot drive (ONLY the OS goes here)
120gig IDE drive Installed programs, such as games, Apps, Etc...
120gig SATA drive for Stuff, videos, docs, music, downloads, etc..
This makes a noticable difference.
I just took the boot drive out and my computer slowed waaay down,.. T-T Thinking of puuting it back in.
Edit: I'l explain why this goes faster, your drive indexes everything, and has to run through the index whenever it wants somthing. Well, The smaller the drive and the less stuff in the index the faster it goes. At least thats what my computer mentor told me. so smaller drives work better for boot drives.
Edited, Mon Nov 22 21:16:09 2004 by Aacra
The setup I had until recently is a 10gig IDE boot drive (ONLY the OS goes here)
120gig IDE drive Installed programs, such as games, Apps, Etc...
120gig SATA drive for Stuff, videos, docs, music, downloads, etc..
This makes a noticable difference.
I just took the boot drive out and my computer slowed waaay down,.. T-T Thinking of puuting it back in.
Edit: I'l explain why this goes faster, your drive indexes everything, and has to run through the index whenever it wants somthing. Well, The smaller the drive and the less stuff in the index the faster it goes. At least thats what my computer mentor told me. so smaller drives work better for boot drives.
Edited, Mon Nov 22 21:16:09 2004 by Aacra
The biggest thing that having multiple drives helps is when you isolate the swapfile to a seperate disk/channel from the operative one, so that when the OS pages data it wont affect the read on the other.
So Aacra... why not get the smallest drive you can find with the highest RPM for the boot drive? Unless 100 gig is the smallest... I've only got an 80 gig drive in mine but then again its nearly two years old. (and not custom :/)
Ok, so I'm doing everything right by having a 200 gig for my file server while having my 40 gig as my OS drive? Ok... just making sure. It seemed right to me but I wanted to double check is all.
will it increase effiecency? no.
All it will do is save you from a system crash and good for backup, that way say one HD crashes and is gone you atleast have half the crap on another.
All it will do is save you from a system crash and good for backup, that way say one HD crashes and is gone you atleast have half the crap on another.
BurningJ Thats the idea, find the smallest fastest drive you can for a boot drive I wouldnt go less than 10gig for XP though.
Anyways,... All these people say it doesnt really increase speed, but I found it really made a difference on my computer though.
Running an AMD Athlon 2000+ with 1024 Meg of 2700DDR Ram.
Asus A7N8X-E Delux mobo.
Not much else matters for this so I wont waste your time bragging about it.
Anyways,... All these people say it doesnt really increase speed, but I found it really made a difference on my computer though.
Running an AMD Athlon 2000+ with 1024 Meg of 2700DDR Ram.
Asus A7N8X-E Delux mobo.
Not much else matters for this so I wont waste your time bragging about it.
I've found that it made a huge difference. Massive actually.
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The seperate small/fast drive for XP *may* make a difference on how fast many of the operating system tasks work, but it won't make any difference when playing games.
I run two drives, one 40Gb and the storage drive is 120Gb. I noticed a difference when I set this up, not a whole lot but noticable. The rest of my system is P4 2.6, 1 Gb 2700DDR Ram.
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Aacra can I move in or something?
God damn godly computer.
/e eyes widen.. jaw drops..
God damn godly computer.
/e eyes widen.. jaw drops..
hmm when I did this I noticed no noticible diff atleast not enough to warrant the extra HDD.. and im on amd 64 3200+ 1024mb PC3200mem
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damn you all....amd 3000+ with 1024 3100 ram =\ I need the two hard drive deal, I just learned in CIS that it increases speed and efficiency...but maybe paying 14k a year is a waste for an education? :)
does WoW force you to install in Drive C?
Darkdashing wrote:
does WoW force you to install in Drive C?
not sure, wondering the same....
No, I haven't ever seen a program that wouldn't let you change it's destination drive.
I have 3 drives in my PC and once I revamped O.S. and left if on the Master drive all alone with no software or games I did get a quicker loadup of the Windows XP. I run the current system:
P4 2.6 520LGA775 800FSB
1GB Kingston DDR3200 400Mhz
Gigabyte 8I915A-Pro MB 915x chipset
2x120GB ATA133 WD HDD RAID0 (main)
1x200GB SATA WD HDD storage drive
MSI GeFoce FX5900 VTD-256MB DDR PCI-x
What a complete wasted of 600.00 bucks on ebay. I will be homeless by next summer at this rate. Games and computer upgrades count for 90% of my paycheck.
P4 2.6 520LGA775 800FSB
1GB Kingston DDR3200 400Mhz
Gigabyte 8I915A-Pro MB 915x chipset
2x120GB ATA133 WD HDD RAID0 (main)
1x200GB SATA WD HDD storage drive
MSI GeFoce FX5900 VTD-256MB DDR PCI-x
What a complete wasted of 600.00 bucks on ebay. I will be homeless by next summer at this rate. Games and computer upgrades count for 90% of my paycheck.
I feel ya darealone. I really do. =\
BobHopeKilledMe the Malevolent wrote:
No, I haven't ever seen a program that wouldn't let you change it's destination drive.
Almost every program allows you to pick the destination folder, wondering if this does...if not I'm screwed lol...gotta delete like 5 games!
Ominara wrote:
1) The main bennifit to having your OS on one partition/hard drive and your programs on another is incase your OS crashes and you have to reformat. Then you only have to reformat the OS drive and leave your programs intact.
This seldom works, as you'll be missing the windows registry entries that are needed to run many programs.
Edited, Tue Nov 23 18:02:02 2004 by Troutman
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Nice Comp Aacra, I have 2 comps with the same mobo and running AMD 3.2+ w/ 512 meg ram and SATA 80gig and 120 gig hds
Gotta love that gigabyte network card!!
RagnarBlack
Gotta love that gigabyte network card!!
RagnarBlack
Pixienixie wrote:
BobHopeKilledMe the Malevolent wrote:
No, I haven't ever seen a program that wouldn't let you change it's destination drive.
Almost every program allows you to pick the destination folder, wondering if this does...if not I'm screwed lol...gotta delete like 5 games!
ok, it lets you choose the drive you want to install on !! hurray!
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