Optimal HD setup?

Scorpionic · 20-December-05, 12:14 PM

Was just wondering would there be any significant performance gains to install your games on a seperate physical HD than your OS?

RBIEZE · 20-December-05, 02:40 PM

If your O.S drive is slower than the storage drive of course its worth it.
I run my O.S on a single drive and my games on 2 screaming raid0 arrays,its way faster loading games.

I like keeping the O.S alone on its own drive anyway .
That way its completely independent and critical file fragmentation is kept to a minimum.

Also if you clean house/reformat or reinstall an O.S its seperate from your other bulk files,and you dont have to reinstall all your games /App's again.Nice timesaver

Jonny_5 · 20-December-05, 03:23 PM

I do not know if there would be any significant performance increases by placing your games on a different hard drive. If it is a question of having a free hard drive, go ahead, however the price/performance ratio of purchasing a hard drive to use as a gaming hard drive, (if it is the same speed as your previous HD, and you had lots of free space already) would be quite low and money would be better spent on increasing ram, or changing the video card.

However, placing the page file of your OS on a different drive will produce more significant increases in speed.

Bane · 20-December-05, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by RBIEZE


	If your O.S drive is slower than the storage drive of course its worth it. I run my O.S on a single drive and my games on 2 screaming raid0 arrays,its way faster loading games. I like keeping the O.S alone on its own drive anyway . That way its completely independent and critical file fragmentation is kept to a minimum. Also if you clean house/reformat or reinstall an O.S its seperate from your other bulk files,and you dont have to reinstall all your games /App's again.Nice timesaver

Then again, the registry wont see that the games are installed :-p

hartigan · 20-December-05, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Bane


	Then again, the registry wont see that the games are installed :-p

. . . or any other applications that you have installed. ie: you have to reinstall everything if you reinstall Windows, anyway.

The Dragon Reborn · 20-December-05, 04:32 PM

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	However, placing the page file of your OS on a different drive will produce more significant increases in speed

Well... I've tested this and can confirm it.... it really works...

TDR

Scorpionic · 20-December-05, 06:27 PM

I've read that RAID arrays provide only like a .2 sec decrease in load times or some other measley performance increase for gaming. I dunno, seems like a cool idea for sure but I'll have to consider it. Definitely going with raptors either way.

20-December-05, 12:14 PM		#1 (permalink)
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20-December-05, 02:40 PM		#2 (permalink)
RBIEZE Apex Tech Demi-God	If your O.S drive is slower than the storage drive of course its worth it. I run my O.S on a single drive and my games on 2 screaming raid0 arrays,its way faster loading games. I like keeping the O.S alone on its own drive anyway . That way its completely independent and critical file fragmentation is kept to a minimum. Also if you clean house/reformat or reinstall an O.S its seperate from your other bulk files,and you dont have to reinstall all your games /App's again.Nice timesaver

20-December-05, 03:23 PM		#3 (permalink)
Jonny_5 Apex Techie II	I do not know if there would be any significant performance increases by placing your games on a different hard drive. If it is a question of having a free hard drive, go ahead, however the price/performance ratio of purchasing a hard drive to use as a gaming hard drive, (if it is the same speed as your previous HD, and you had lots of free space already) would be quite low and money would be better spent on increasing ram, or changing the video card. However, placing the page file of your OS on a different drive will produce more significant increases in speed.

20-December-05, 06:27 PM		#7 (permalink)
Scorpionic Recycl-Hoe-tron	I've read that RAID arrays provide only like a .2 sec decrease in load times or some other measley performance increase for gaming. I dunno, seems like a cool idea for sure but I'll have to consider it. Definitely going with raptors either way.