Quick question about having two harddrives in one machine

If I have World of Warcraft, or any other game for that matter, on my second internal HDD that doesn't have the OS installed on it, would it run slower? Would having the game installed on the OS HDD make it faster? Thanks in advance.

It depends on the speed of your hard drives, but TBH unless 1 of the drives is a SSD you aren't going to notice much difference (if any). I have my machine set up like this. 240GB SSD - Windows, and apps (not games) 1TB Samsung F3 - games 2TB Samsung F4 - media I'd sure love to have my games on SSD, but until they make a cheap 1TB (at least) SSD I'm sticking to a mechanical drive.CellAnimation

What apps do you have that take up 240GB?

To TC: You won't notice much of a difference unless one of your harddrives is drastically slower than the other.

Games is preffered to be on another HDD than the OS because Windows will need to read/write off the OS drive even when you are running the game... result = faster loading time.

People with SSD's would prefferably use the SSD as a OS drive, depending on the size of it you wont fit very many games, but installing on the SSD over a mecanical is better even if the OS sits on the SSD because it's drasticly faster than mecanical HDD's.

[QUOTE="CellAnimation"]It depends on the speed of your hard drives, but TBH unless 1 of the drives is a SSD you aren't going to notice much difference (if any). I have my machine set up like this. 240GB SSD - Windows, and apps (not games) 1TB Samsung F3 - games 2TB Samsung F4 - media I'd sure love to have my games on SSD, but until they make a cheap 1TB (at least) SSD I'm sticking to a mechanical drive.GummiRaccoon

What apps do you have that take up 240GB?

To TC: You won't notice much of a difference unless one of your harddrives is drastically slower than the other.

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

[QUOTE="CellAnimation"]It depends on the speed of your hard drives, but TBH unless 1 of the drives is a SSD you aren't going to notice much difference (if any). I have my machine set up like this. 240GB SSD - Windows, and apps (not games) 1TB Samsung F3 - games 2TB Samsung F4 - media I'd sure love to have my games on SSD, but until they make a cheap 1TB (at least) SSD I'm sticking to a mechanical drive.CellAnimation

What apps do you have that take up 240GB?

To TC: You won't notice much of a difference unless one of your harddrives is drastically slower than the other.

Then why don't you put your games in the 160GB of free space you have?

Next rig I plan on having about a 300-500gb SSD drive for OS, Music Apps, vsts, audio directories etc.

And a seperate fast HDD about 750gb for games, and data, and music that I just listen to.

[QUOTE="CellAnimation"][QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

What apps do you have that take up 240GB?

To TC: You won't notice much of a difference unless one of your harddrives is drastically slower than the other.

GummiRaccoon

Then why don't you put your games in the 160GB of free space you have?