One or two hard drives?
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Hello,
Moving to a new computer, trying to figure out how to use new & old hard drives for best performance. Main use is Sketchup then into photoshop.
New drive is 1T sata3 6gb drive and old (2 year old sata2 3gb)
I’m thinking about
1T will have windows 8 & all program files.
d: will be the old sata2 for data files?
Will it be faster to have that set up?
Or my other idea is to put everything on the new 1T drive since it is sata3. Reformat the old sata2 drive, and use it for daily backups (along with external usb just in case)?
Any thoughts, comments or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Glenn
p.s. in case this has any bearing: new system is i7 3.4 3770, 16gb ram, windows 8 -
I would suggest 1 SSD for the OS and a few choice programs, like Autocad or Adobe and SU since it's sooo small. Everything else on a normal harddrive for data. then a third harddrive for backups.
As soon as you first start up with an SSD you will thank yourself for buying it.
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Thanks for the reply, I was in a bind yesterday and couldn't go with an ssd at this time. I will use my old drive for data until that time.
Glenn -
yeah... they're expensive. and even buying them on Ebay is difficult because they are so popular.
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Even a small SSD (whatever you can/want to afford) is absolutely worth it. Though you might need to have discipline putting only the most often used files on it (what you use everyday = your operating system), it gives an indispensible speed boost.
I had a 64GB one and it was quite spacy (and since it is less slowed down by fragmentation, you can fill it to more than 80% even if you use Windows). -
Another vote for SSD. So worth the price. Of vourse I'd rather pay less
But they really are faster. -
+1 for a SSD
it should give you a real speed boost (and it's noiseless)
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