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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Enduro on July 04, 2006, 10:54:13 AM

Title: hard drives
Post by: Enduro on July 04, 2006, 10:54:13 AM

It's always seemed that game performance is best when the OS & game are installed on an otherwise clean hard drive.

So, I think it's a good idea for me to purchase about a 200Gig slave drive for all my software and junk files.  

I'm reading reviews at newegg.com re: Western Digital--have noticed some real horror stories re: poor quality drives from WD.  (Too bad...I used to like their hard drives years ago.)

What make & model drive would you guys recommend?
Maxtor?
Seagate?
Something else?

Thanks, folks!  :)

Title: hard drives
Post by: Krusty on July 04, 2006, 11:01:52 AM

You really don't need to. If you've got less than 3 GB free you should, for future expansion. When nothing else is running except Windows and AH2, it doesn't matter how full your HD is, because it's not accessing all that other stuff.

If you REALLY want to shave a few miliseconds off (and that's being generous) defrag your entire drive.

However, as long as you have enough room for the swap file and temp files you won't help anything by saving all your other stuff to a different drive.

Title: hard drives
Post by: Enduro on July 05, 2006, 02:21:37 AM

Okay...thanks Krusty.

:)

Title: hard drives
Post by: ozrocker on July 12, 2006, 04:12:11 PM

Want a good drive? Get a Seagate. Only one with a 5 yr warrenty.
                                                                            Oz

Title: hard drives
Post by: Eagler on July 12, 2006, 05:14:12 PM

seagate then western digital and then maxtor

Title: hard drives
Post by: handy169 on July 12, 2006, 05:19:54 PM

i would suggest if your using a PATA drive get a drive with 16 megs cache .. if your using a SATA drive you should be fine with anything but maybe go with a raid setup if you can afford it