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Subject: Re: 2 harddrives

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 20:31:29 10/25/05

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On October 25, 2005 at 21:44:59, joseph soney wrote:

>Is it better to put your chess software on the HD that contains windows or on a
>different hard drive. Also, Would it be better to put windows on a 10k rpm drive
>or a 7200 rpm drive. Which configuration would be best with these 2 hard drives?
>Thanks!

I have my Windows on a separate hard drive than all my Chess related stuff.

You won't even notice the difference between the 10K and 7.2K drive in terms of
speed. I used to have something similiar, and they benched pretty close to each
other.

The usual rule of thumb is to put the smaller hard drive as the main drive, and
any bigger one's behind it.

Here is my current configuration:

Drive 1 (120 gig Maxtor 7200 prm)
Partition 1 (12.5 gb)
C:\ = Windows
D:\ = Programs and what not (76.5 gigs)
E:\ = Linux stuff (Currently SuSE 10) (30+gb)

Drive 2 (300gb Western Digital Drive)
F:\ Chess Programs and 3/4/5+some6 man tablebases

Drive 3 (300gb Western Digital Drive)
G:\ 6 man tablebases

Drive 4 (300gb Western Digital Drive)
H:\ 6 man tablebases and an image of the C:\Windows partition for restore

Peter



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