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i have 2 drives 10k and 7k which will benifit me most?

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oneofusjustin

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Feb 18, 2008
ok so im doing an upgrade and i have 2 hard drives.. one is 10,000 rpm and one is 7,200 rpm this rig is a pure gaming rig so i was wondering if you guys could weigh in and let me know if it would be worth it to put the small 36 gig 10k in and run my games off of it and use the 7,200 as storage for things liek music movies and older games that arent hard to run... well let me know here are the specs... but if the results wont be anythign fancy i dont even wanna mess with the dual hard drives so just let me know

10k
WD raptor 36 gig
cache 16mb
average latency 2.99ms nominal
read seek 4.6ms
write seek 5.2
buffer to host sata 1.5 gb/s MAX
Transfer rate 84mb/s sustained


7200
Samsung spinpoint p series sp2004c
cache 8mb
average latency 4.17ms
read seek 8.9ms
3gb/s max
 
it will probably be a little better (someone correct me if im wrong)

just set the raptor up for your OS and the game(s) you play the most

and use the spinpoint drive for storage
 
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