What should I install where?

I am going to be buying a Western Digital Raptor 36 gig 10000 rpm 8meg cache
SATA hardrive for the sole purpose of having my PC games load faster and run
smoother. The only question i have is would it be better to install my OS on
this hardrive and have my games on my 120 gig IDE slower hardrive. Or would
it be better to have my OS on my 120 gig and use the WD fast hardrive ONLY
for games. Remember that I just want betetr quality in games. So im guessing
installing all the games on my new one is the best choice. Im looking for
opinions thnx

You might be better off if you can configure a RAID level 0 implementation.
Your games and OS can read from two drives at the same time.
Here is some info I found on the Internet about Raid 0:

RAID 0 implements a striped disk array, the data is broken down into blocks
and each block is written to a separate disk drive

I/O performance is greatly improved by spreading the I/O load across many
channels and drives


Best performance is achieved when data is striped across multiple
controllers with only one drive per controller


"Chris" wrote in message
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I am going to be buying a Western Digital Raptor 36 gig 10000 rpm 8meg
cache
SATA hardrive for the sole purpose of having my PC games load faster and
run
smoother. The only question i have is would it be better to install my OS
on
this hardrive and have my games on my 120 gig IDE slower hardrive. Or
would
it be better to have my OS on my 120 gig and use the WD fast hardrive ONLY
for games. Remember that I just want betetr quality in games. So im
guessing
installing all the games on my new one is the best choice. Im looking for
opinions thnx

In message om, Chris
writes
I am going to be buying a Western Digital Raptor 36 gig 10000 rpm 8meg cache
SATA hardrive for the sole purpose of having my PC games load faster and run
smoother.

What games are you talking about?

Most rely on CPU and GPU performance alone when running. Initial loading
will be faster but would you see much difference
going from scene to scene?? Not sure. (I'd probably want the few
milliseconds rest anyway ;-)

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I assume you have the 'ultimate' graphics card??
Might be the place to start.

"Chris" wrote in message
rs.com...
I am going to be buying a Western Digital Raptor 36 gig 10000 rpm 8meg
cache
SATA hardrive for the sole purpose of having my PC games load faster and
run
smoother. The only question i have is would it be better to install my OS
on
this hardrive and have my games on my 120 gig IDE slower hardrive. Or
would
it be better to have my OS on my 120 gig and use the WD fast hardrive ONLY
for games. Remember that I just want betetr quality in games. So im
guessing
installing all the games on my new one is the best choice. Im looking for
opinions thnx

I have a p4 2.6 ghz, 1 gig of pc3200 ram and a Radeon 9800 pro
"D" wrote in message
...
I assume you have the 'ultimate' graphics card??
Might be the place to start.

"Chris" wrote in message
rs.com...
I am going to be buying a Western Digital Raptor 36 gig 10000 rpm 8meg
cache
SATA hardrive for the sole purpose of having my PC games load faster and
run
smoother. The only question i have is would it be better to install my
OS
on
this hardrive and have my games on my 120 gig IDE slower hardrive. Or
would
it be better to have my OS on my 120 gig and use the WD fast hardrive
ONLY
for games. Remember that I just want betetr quality in games. So im
guessing
installing all the games on my new one is the best choice. Im looking
for
opinions thnx