which will be faster for storage and access of data???... pls help!!!

hi, i would like to know in which of the following cases will

1)data storage(write speed)

2)data access (read speed)

3)speed of windows xp tasks

be faster:

a)storage on same hard disk, same partition as XP

b)storage on different partition, same hd as xp

c)storage on different hd as xp

Thanks a bunch!!!

SSD has your OS and another for your files.

As stated the best way to go is an SSD for your Operating System and applications. A good Caviar Black or Samsung F3 for storage and your games. Some games continue to write to the hard drive while playing (WoW) and this makes certain SSD's (the less expensive ones anyway) worse for gaming. Although, give it time, and I am sure this will change. For now, SSD have outstanding read speeds, but not so great write speeds (depending on which ones you get and those are usually the most costly). Plus, SSD's cost a lot more per gigabyte then a normal hard drive. Depends on your budget and how far you are willing to go.

My next gaming system build isn't till June, so I am asking myself many of the same questions now and watching the technology develop. Also, trying to decide if its really worth it by June to replace my 720BE or keep it. All this is up in the air for me at this point.

As stated the best way to go is an SSD for your Operating System and applications. A good Caviar Black or Samsung F3 for storage and your games. Some games continue to write to the hard drive while playing (WoW) and this makes certain SSD's (the less expensive ones anyway) worse for gaming. Although, give it time, and I am sure this will change. For now, SSD have outstanding read speeds, but not so great write speeds (depending on which ones you get and those are usually the most costly). Plus, SSD's cost a lot more per gigabyte then a normal hard drive. Depends on your budget and how far you are willing to go.

My next gaming system build isn't till June, so I am asking myself many of the same questions now and watching the technology develop. Also, trying to decide if its really worth it by June to replace my 720BE or keep it. All this is up in the air for me at this point.

vicsrealms

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As stated the best way to go is an SSD for your Operating System and applications. A good Caviar Black or Samsung F3 for storage and your games. Some games continue to write to the hard drive while playing (WoW) and this makes certain SSD's (the less expensive ones anyway) worse for gaming. Although, give it time, and I am sure this will change. For now, SSD have outstanding read speeds, but not so great write speeds (depending on which ones you get and those are usually the most costly). Plus, SSD's cost a lot more per gigabyte then a normal hard drive. Depends on your budget and how far you are willing to go.

My next gaming system build isn't till June, so I am asking myself many of the same questions now and watching the technology develop. Also, trying to decide if its really worth it by June to replace my 720BE or keep it. All this is up in the air for me at this point.

imprezawrx500

I do believe I mentioned that:

"(depending on which ones you get and those are usually the most costly)." + "Plus, SSD's cost a lot more per gigabyte then a normal hard drive. Depends on your budget and how far you are willing to go."

Still, its a technology that has a lot of potential as the price drops and is something to keep an eye on.

Also depends on your SATA speed... connecting a SSD onto a 3Gb/s then your bottlenecking it, that's why you get a 6Gb/s board.. :) Of course this also depends on the speed of the SSD as well, but you get the picture. :) I don't have a 6Gb/s board but I don't think platter HDDs would benefit from it all that much since access speed is dependant on RPM, otherwise, why would they have 3Gb/s ports on new boards equipped with 6Gb/s ports? Anywhooo

xp on 1 partition, files on another partition page file either on the space partition as files or on a partition all by itself. that page file can really burn a hole through speeds.