Hello everyone, i would like all your help. I'm bulding my AM2 computer. I just purchase a huge space hard drive. Seagate Barracuda SATA II 500Gb 3.0Gb/s @7200RPM. Should I use this hard drive as my only primary one or should i buy another smaller hard drive and use as a boot up system then use my 500Gb as my storage drive only? what do you guy think..please help.
One more thing, If you guy said i should buy another smaller hard drive, then how many RPM does it have to be and what brand do you guy think it the best.
I would very appreciate every help from all friends over the world.. thankyou.
2007-02-26 17:01:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
the seagate is one of the fastest drives around, so you can use it for boot up. just divide it into two partitions and use the primary for boot, the rest for storage.
If you're worried about space or just want more speed, go with the WD Raptor as your boot drive and use the other strictly for storage.
2007-02-26 17:09:06 · answer #1 · answered by freetronics 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your computer's case will hold two hard drives AND your motherboard has two SATA controllers, then I would recommend having two internal hard drives. Another option if this is not the case is to get an external hard drive that hooks up with USB for backup. In the first case, I would recommend either another Seagate or a Western Digital drive. I would not have to have the same capacity but I would recommend the same seek time and spindle speed. My theory of build your own is 'might as well put in the best you can afford as long as you are doing it yourself'. I would use the smaller drive as the boot up system as you said but I would use the larger drive for both storage and for the page file (the file you can set to let Windows use some hard drive space like RAM). Now if your data is going to be important on this PC, I would recommend setting up the drives in a RAID 1 config so that the same data is written to both drives at the same time. This way, if drive 1 fails, drive 2 has the data.
2007-02-26 17:49:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good luck. I have a partition on my drive for back up of my operating system. And I have another drive for backup of my important files so if anything happens to the drive because of any virus or accident I can pull my important files on the small drive for recovery. I also have a hard disk besides the partition back up of my operating system. I wonder if a partition would help you. I am not sure it would help for an operating system but with a double core system I thought I would put it out there for thought.
I have a friend I am ordering adapters for he has a bunch a smaller SATA drives he wants to test before selling.
2007-02-26 17:28:28 · answer #3 · answered by Checkered Square 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i imagine you want assisting cables on the motherboard to connect a SATA confusing disk. even if it isn't already there, you could try looking a SATA card. Alternately , in the journey that your computer has usb port, you could purchase an exterior usb casing for the SATA hd, and would connect it as an exernal hd.
2016-12-05 00:26:13 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
500GB, wow that's a ton of space, nice. However, depending on what you utilize your comp for, which seems to me is a lot of data storage, the fastest SATA drive on the planet for the home user is Western Digital's RAPTOR Drive, 10,000 RPM! Data Transfer blazes with these HDD's. I use 'em for gaming and they're killer.
2007-02-26 17:09:01 · answer #5 · answered by Pontius 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would just create a partition on the 500gb drive for my operating system.
2007-02-26 17:12:57 · answer #6 · answered by Jimmy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋