Jim82
31st October 2005, 07:42
Im simply trying to find out the best way to layout my 2 hard drives, cant get
a straight answer with regards to them being differant speeds
My Main Drive - 160GB Maxtor 7200rpm
My Slave Drive - 60gb 5200rpm
Now, I understand that when encoding from one drive to another, greater speeds can be achieved, but what about in my case, the issue being one of the drive's speeds - 5200rpm as opposed to 7200rpm
My question is, Would I get best performance, encoding FROM the slower drive TO the main drive (or vice-versa) - this is the one Im thinking would give me best performance as encoding speed isnt faster than a 5200rpm drive
right? OR would I get best encode speeds creating a second partition on my main drive therefore encoding from on partition to another and using the slave as storage OR , to me the most unlikely option, use the main drive with 1 main partitiong and do all encoding, source to destination on the 1 faster drive??
One very important question I need to know is, with any of the setups, would It be more efficient having a small partition on the fast main drive for OS and APPS (25gb will cover it) so thy are uneffected by encoding?
Help would be amazing, this is the last thing thats really bugging me, got my new system running fine, Ive been trying really hard to get solid info on the best way to set up these disks. Once ive got this clued up, I'll be truly optimized!! :)
I will be so relieved when I finally find this one out! :cool:
a straight answer with regards to them being differant speeds
My Main Drive - 160GB Maxtor 7200rpm
My Slave Drive - 60gb 5200rpm
Now, I understand that when encoding from one drive to another, greater speeds can be achieved, but what about in my case, the issue being one of the drive's speeds - 5200rpm as opposed to 7200rpm
My question is, Would I get best performance, encoding FROM the slower drive TO the main drive (or vice-versa) - this is the one Im thinking would give me best performance as encoding speed isnt faster than a 5200rpm drive
right? OR would I get best encode speeds creating a second partition on my main drive therefore encoding from on partition to another and using the slave as storage OR , to me the most unlikely option, use the main drive with 1 main partitiong and do all encoding, source to destination on the 1 faster drive??
One very important question I need to know is, with any of the setups, would It be more efficient having a small partition on the fast main drive for OS and APPS (25gb will cover it) so thy are uneffected by encoding?
Help would be amazing, this is the last thing thats really bugging me, got my new system running fine, Ive been trying really hard to get solid info on the best way to set up these disks. Once ive got this clued up, I'll be truly optimized!! :)
I will be so relieved when I finally find this one out! :cool: