Should I reinstall Windows on a faster drive

[Karovaldas]

Since I started doing video, my 40GB hard drive filled up so fast... So now I bougt a new 80GB one. THe new one is faster than my old one 7200 RPM vs. 5400 RPM.

Here's the question: How do I best take advantage of the new speed? Or, in other words, is it enough for me to keep all of my video materials on the faster drive OR should I reinstall the whole XP Pro on the new drive?

Will reinstalling Windows on the faster drive improve the speed of my video work?

Thanks for input!

[mrlipring]

once progs are loaded, they're loaded. all that's used then is the swap file if you don't have daft amounts of ram, and the drive/partition holding the files you're working on/temp space.

if you use the fastest drive for all the videos and the slower one (with the windows install on) for the swap file that should be you as efficient as possible.

[Karovaldas]

:D

[Ramirez]

Sorry, I can't agree with your suggestion mrlipring, a better idea would be to keep all raw material on the first drive (also preferably 7200RPM) and then configuring the encoding application to output all processed material (including temp and intermediate files) on the faster drive, the same applies to Swap file, move it on the faster drive (the O.S has much better thing to-do then moving reading heads back and forth between the source files and the Swap file)

Just my 2 Israeli agoras guys. :)

[mrlipring]

but then your way, the fast drive has to swap between the destination and swap files. that's assuming the op is using files like you're suggesting.

if the op could give use a bit more to go on (what do you do mostly?) then i'm sure we could give them more help. and how much ram you have.

ALSO, the op was asking about which drive to install the os on, not which drive to encode from/to.

you're right enough in that it's usually best (if for example you're doing a straight encode of videos) to encode from one physical drive to another.