I recently lost a secondary hard drive (wont spin) that was rather old, a 200gb WD,
and bought a replacement for it but now I'm wondering if I should use the replacement as a new primary(or solo HD) as my working HD is rather old too
My Current Primary is a Barracuda ST3320820AS - 320gb 3gb SATA 7200 8mb cache (15GB Free Space)
My New Drive is a Western Digital WD20EARS - 2tb 3gb SATA 64mb cache
The hard drive that broke has the stuff that wasn't replaceable(pictures, movies, music, avi's, mpeg's, ect...)
It would be a headache to reinstall windows and download all my various software (mostly games), but would be possible just very time consuming
I'm wondering if the cache differences would significantly increase performance enough to offset this headache
Either way I need the new drive space (diablo 3 and fear 3 comming soon), and I'm wondering if anyone who knows HD's well thinks running windows off of the newer HD would be worth it
P.S.
If system information helps
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
CPU - AMD 955 3.2 Quad
Mobo - Asus M4A77TD
RAM - 2x Patriot 1333 2GB DDR3 PC3-10700
VC - GeFroce GTX 285
I have attempted to use SiSoftware Sandra to do a Benchmark Comparison of the Drives, but cannot find the WD20EARS for a comparison run :/
PPS
sorry for the long post, but I appreciate anyone who can reply =D
and bought a replacement for it but now I'm wondering if I should use the replacement as a new primary(or solo HD) as my working HD is rather old too
My Current Primary is a Barracuda ST3320820AS - 320gb 3gb SATA 7200 8mb cache (15GB Free Space)
My New Drive is a Western Digital WD20EARS - 2tb 3gb SATA 64mb cache
The hard drive that broke has the stuff that wasn't replaceable(pictures, movies, music, avi's, mpeg's, ect...)
It would be a headache to reinstall windows and download all my various software (mostly games), but would be possible just very time consuming
I'm wondering if the cache differences would significantly increase performance enough to offset this headache
Either way I need the new drive space (diablo 3 and fear 3 comming soon), and I'm wondering if anyone who knows HD's well thinks running windows off of the newer HD would be worth it
P.S.
If system information helps
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
CPU - AMD 955 3.2 Quad
Mobo - Asus M4A77TD
RAM - 2x Patriot 1333 2GB DDR3 PC3-10700
VC - GeFroce GTX 285
I have attempted to use SiSoftware Sandra to do a Benchmark Comparison of the Drives, but cannot find the WD20EARS for a comparison run :/
PPS
sorry for the long post, but I appreciate anyone who can reply =D