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Thread ID: 58546	2005-06-03 21:54:00	Which drive to boot from?	Mike (15)	Press F1

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361028	2005-06-03 21:54:00	Is there any benefit booting from one drive over another? I currently have two drives in this machine - a 160gb WD and a 40gb Seagate. Both 7200rpm. Currently I boot to a partition on the 160gb, but I am thinking of changing how it all works and using the 40gb as my boot/OS drive and using the 160gb as storage etc. I am guessing it is unlikely I would notice any performance difference due to both drives running at basically the same speed. Is there any issues that are likely to arise from what I am proposing? Are there any reasons I shouldn't do it? I am thinking that then if a drive dies it's more likely to be the 40gb than the 160gb (due to higher use I imagine would occur due to OS and programs being run from it)... Are there any serious flaws in my thinking? :D Mike.	Mike (15)
361029	2005-06-04 00:06:00	Sounds like you've thought about it all. I don't see any problems. I'd make the boot/os partition about 10Gb. That is all it needs.	trader15570 (7852)
361030	2005-06-04 01:19:00	Chances are that the 40GB drive will be slower than the 160GB because of more modern technologies going into the 160 and higher density platters. You quite possibly wouldn't notice much of a difference though. I always tend to use my smallest drive as my OS drive.	Jeremy (1197)
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