I'm planning to add a 74gig 10k raptor drive in the next couple weeks. Just wanted to know see what everyone thinks is the best way to benefit from it. My main goal is to speed up program loading and general overall performance. Right now I have a 120gig 7200rpm/8m buffer ide drive split into 3 partitions - 1 for xp pro, 1 for other program files (adobe & macromedia stuff, etc etc) and 1 for work files (large design and photo files mostly).
What I thought would work best is to split the raptor into 2 partitions - 1 for xp and 1 for programs, and devote the whole 120 drive to files/data. The only downside to this is a clean install of xp and apps, which I just did over the summer. Will that by far be the best overall performance booster, or would it be about as benefitial to put the data/work files on the raptor and speed them up some? I guess the real question is will THAT (2nd) approach only speed up the opening/closing/saving of files and do nothing else, whereas the 1st approach will speed up both XP boot, application startup and general speed when working in the apps?
Thanks in advance - Richard
What I thought would work best is to split the raptor into 2 partitions - 1 for xp and 1 for programs, and devote the whole 120 drive to files/data. The only downside to this is a clean install of xp and apps, which I just did over the summer. Will that by far be the best overall performance booster, or would it be about as benefitial to put the data/work files on the raptor and speed them up some? I guess the real question is will THAT (2nd) approach only speed up the opening/closing/saving of files and do nothing else, whereas the 1st approach will speed up both XP boot, application startup and general speed when working in the apps?
Thanks in advance - Richard