How many HDD's?

linkin

linkin

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For my system i'm bulding i was thinking of using my old 20GB ide drive for windows and another 80gb SATA drive for games/programs. Is this a good idea or is it better to just have one big hdd?
 
why bother? i won't have another pc that will be able to handle games.
 
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If you're playing games you need bigger drives. I hardly have any media on here, maybe about ~50 gigs, and I wish I had a bigger hard drive. The average game takes up about 5GB, and I don't have that many games and I already used up about 150GB. 160GB really won't last you. What's wrong with just getting one large drive? It would be easier and cheaper.
 
A 500GB SATA drive is $65.00 on Tigerdirect.com so it's not like it's a huge investment. You also didnt' say what OS your going to be using. If you are going to using Vista or Windows 7 a 20GB drive won't been enough a 40GB drive won't cut it either. Also if you go two drives to separate your games/programs from the OS your not going to gain anything. In fact if you ever have to reinstall Windows you will still have to reinstall all your games/programs anyway since the registry will be wiped out. Defrag wise your not going to see much of a differnce either. A larger drive will get fragmented less anyway since there is more room for files.
 
bengal85 said:
that would work. or if they are games get an external you can take wiht you everywhere
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ehhh not really. Not as easy as it sounds/you would think. Theres other things being referenced/theres more to the game than just the game file (ie registry)

linkin93 said:
Maybe i'll just get 2 80gb sata drives...
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If youre getting drives, I'd highly recommend just getting one large drive. It wont cost that much more (decent chance it will save you money). The only reason to use 2 drives from the start is if you already own them and are on a tight budget. (Or if one is significantly faster ie a raptor) (maybe a few other exceptions...)
 
Ehhh, 20GB is NOT enough for game installs, you'll want at least a 160-200GB drive for your OS, then 400-500GB more for other data
 
Ya you don't want small hard drives. I would recommend larger drives rather than small drives as for the most part they are faster. I used to use two 250 gig drives. They I decided to just go for my WD 640gig and that's about a good amount of space for games and the operating system. Im planning on getting another 640gb drive for all the other crap I have laying around, and if I run out of space on those two monsters, then theres something wrong with me. I never filled up even a single 250gb drive, but I want to run RAID so I want matched drives. That's another thing to think about. You can use a single drive that is larger, or go with 2 larger drives and run them in a RAID configuration.
 
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