I have 2 older Seagate Barracuda 200GB drives and 2 newer Western Digital 1TB Black drives in my system. I'm having trouble deciding how to set up Windows 7. Right now I have the OS on one of the Seagate 200GB drives, Apps on the other 200GB Seagate and use the 1TB WD Blacks for Video/Storage.
I ran some test and it seems like the Black drives are faster in almost every way than the Barracudas - aside from maybe access times - which are better for the smaller Seagate drives.
Should I pop the OS on one of the Black drives?
If so would Windows be slower since I would have the OS and also Apps on this drive, being that it's big.
I was also thinking of RAID 0 for the 2 200GB drives and install the OS there.
Or even get crazy and Short Stroke the 2-200's AND RAID 0 them for the OS Say 50GB from each drive for 100 GB SS+RAID 0 for the OS.
Any thoughts would be welcome.
Olimazi
I ran some test and it seems like the Black drives are faster in almost every way than the Barracudas - aside from maybe access times - which are better for the smaller Seagate drives.
Should I pop the OS on one of the Black drives?
If so would Windows be slower since I would have the OS and also Apps on this drive, being that it's big.
I was also thinking of RAID 0 for the 2 200GB drives and install the OS there.
Or even get crazy and Short Stroke the 2-200's AND RAID 0 them for the OS Say 50GB from each drive for 100 GB SS+RAID 0 for the OS.
Any thoughts would be welcome.
Olimazi