I can't believe what I'm hearing BM. :o
Of course put your OS/Apps on the new drive. The OS will be much more responsive and will startup/shutdown faster. You should use the 5400RPM for storage because it is slower. Storage is mainly there for just that, storage. What's the point of having a fast 10K RPM drive and let files sit on it doing nothing all day? What a waste of speed. Or even better yet, put as much on your fast drive as you can, and use the old drive for storage, but put your least accessed files on the older drive. That will optimize space and speed.
I would suggest creating a separate partition for your OS. This will separate it from the rest of your files, and help cut back on fragmentation of the OS.
What you can even do is split the swapfile between both drives. Put a certain amount on each drive. Yes you can do that.
It is a little more work setting everything up, but it will help in the end.
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the os can stay on the old drive, the important bits are loaded into RAM on boot anyways. you'll lose about 5-30s on boot, but you save a bunch of space on the fast drive. (i'm assuming that you have at least 1gb of ram, given that you're getting a 10kRPM drive) you'll be fine leaving the os on the slow drive.
if you want to save ram, put the os on the fast drive and hit the don't load me into RAM registry flag (it's in there somewhere). your performance will drop quite a bit though (also, you'll note a 5-60s drop in boot time. i don't think it's worth it though)
There really isn't a reason why you shouldn't put the OS on a seperate partition. It keeps things organized, helps cut back on fragmentation, etc. My only quirk with it is when installing new games/programs, it still always defaults to the C partition, so you have to manually choose a new location rather than keep hitting next. Windows is bloated, but not too bad. I have a 5GB Windows partition, and it usually hovers around 3.5 GB. With a 120 GB drive, that really isn't too bad. Just use the OS partition strictly for that, and it will keep the size down. Put all your media/apps/games and even the temporary files/temporary internet files on a different partition. That will keep sizes down and keep your OS unfragmented.
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Also the massively underestimated benifit of making virus removal from the OS and software independently WAY easier.
Nothing works better than a full OS format when the computer has reached its limit of screwedupness, and with seperate partitions and a good virus scan you can do it with absolutly no damage to file storage.
it still always defaults to the C partition, so you have to manually choose a new location rather than keep hitting next.
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start --> run --> CMD
SET ProgramFiles=X:\Program Files
EXIT
white hackery wins
it still always defaults to the C partition, so you have to manually choose a new location rather than keep hitting next.
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start --> run --> CMD
SET ProgramFiles=X:\Program Files
EXIT
white hackery wins
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That's going to be useful info...
Thnx!