yar, and the OS on the fast drive, to increase boot times and performance right? this may be a stupid question, but how do i access stuff thats on the old drive? just click on the 'F' drive or whateverand it will all be in there? or what? >.>

hehe yea i figured. so i have to wipe my old drive clean, install the velociraptor, install win 7 on the new drive, then link the old one as a slave, and then begin installing programs? also, which programs should i put on the faster drive, and which should i put on the old one? games, music, and OS on the fast one? pictures, movies, documents on the old one? or what

could i leave vista installed on the old one, or should i just wipe it and start fresh?

so as far as the basic installation goes... i just would wipe my old drive, install windows 7 on the new drive, and then slave the empty old drive to the new one? or how does that work having 2 drives and gettin a new OS?

I am considering a signifigant upgrade. I currently have a WD 1TB 7200rpm HDD, with all my files and games and vista installed. I want to add a Velociraptor 300gb drive and upgrade to windows 7. Can I just install windows 7 on the new faster drive and then transfer some programs over from my old drive, and then useit as storage? or do i need to install windows 7 on both and completely reinstall everythingfor each drive?will that even work? what is the best way to go about this? thanks!

awesome, the only obstacle at this point is price. how big do you think my SSD needs to be if im just gonna put windows 7 on it and some other apps? i dont think i coud fit all my games on one ssd, i have a ton of steam games... does not putting games on it defeat the purpose? or should i just buy a small ssd for the operating system to boot faster, and leave all my games on my 1TB hdd?

I currently have a 1TB Western Digital 7200rpm HDD, and am looking to buy a new Solid State Drive to vastly increase my speed for booting up and gaming. Which SSD is best, or should i just get a 10000rpm velociraptor? How do I go about this? How do I hook them up, and how do I switch between the SSD and the HDD? I've never done a more than one hard drive setup...

My Specs:

EVGA GTX295 gpu

Intel q9550 quadcore @ 4.0ghz

8GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066 RAM

Gigabyte EP45-UD3P mobo

Creative Fatal1ty X-Fi Sound Blaster

Kingwin 1000w modular psu

Freezer 7 Pro cpu cooler

ScanDisk DVD drive

Xeon LCD temp sensor/fan controller

All-in-One media card reader

Antec 1200 case

Logitech G15 Kerboard

Logitech G7 Mouse

Logitech z5500 5.1 Speakers

Logitech Desktop Microphone

im running vista home premium 64 bit, so it recognizes all 8 gigs. is there a big enough difference between 8gb ddr2 and 6gb ddr3 to justify an upgrade? would i see any real performance increase from my current rig?

Yea I dont understand it, bfbc2 does not always run smooth, specially when volumetric smoke or large explosions happen, and some other games like shattered horizon and empire I have to turn the settings down to about mid range to get decent performance... i updated my drivers a couple months ago when this first became the problem... idk. heres my full specs:

EVGA GTX295 gpu

Intel q9550 quadcore @ 4.0ghz

8GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 800 RAM

Gigabyte EP45-UD3P mobo

Creative Fatal1ty X-Fi Sound Blaster

Kingwin 1000w modular psu

Freezer 7 Pro cpu cooler

ScanDisk DVD drive

Xeon LCD temp sensor/fan controller

All-in-One media card reader

Antec 1200 case

Logitech G15 Kerboard

Logitech G7 Mouse

Logitech z5500 5.1 Speakers

Logitech Desktop Mic

yea i mean i just think my current RAM might be holding me back, because im not getting amazing performance in games like empire total war and bfbc2, i have to lower settings down from max. I have 8gb of DDR2 800 ram, corsair xms. I know my gtx 295 and cpu are not the weak spots, so...