I need hard drive opinions

[PapaBear]

<p>&nbsp;I got a new 160 gig/7200rpm hard drive for Christmas. My old one is an 80 gig/7200rpm drive. I'll be using both drives. Here's the question. Since they are both the same speed (but the old one is about 2 years old), should I go through the hassle of transferring everything to the new drive (making it the boot drive) or just install it as extra storage? The old one only has 20 gigs of space left, but I could just move a bunch of stuff to the new one.</p><p>So... what do you think?</p>

[FezPaul]

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[reeshy]

If you take alot of digital pics or downlod alot of music....use it as you boot drive and keep the other for storage!~!!!!

[PapaBear]

I do have a lot of pics and music. I keep the music on my 40 gig drive (the one I'm replacing).

[HBox]

Don't switch your boot drive, it's too much hassle with no reward. Also, clear up as&nbsp; much space as you can on the 80GB boot drive to help your performance a little bit.

[empulse]

<p>Hook up the new drive. Xfer all Data you want to keep to the new drive:</p><p>My Documents</p><p>Your Email (Create a PST file of your INBOX and other Folders that you want to keep)</p><p>Your Photos</p><p>Maybe download all the new drivers (Video, Network Cards, Sound, Adware removal) and store them on the new drive as well.</p><p>I wiould then take the smaller of the 2 drives and make it the Master (IDE 1 Master) and make the new drive the slave (IDE 1) You may have to enter CMOS (press delete or F1 at boot) and setup drive detection there.&nbsp; Then I would format the smaller of the 2 with your copy of windows (delete all partitions and start fresh) then install Windows (XP, or try VISTA).&nbsp; use the small (master) as the primary installation drive for your programs, and use the 160 for games, photos and general storage / backup.&nbsp; </p><p>By storing all of the stuff you could think to backup on the second drive (160) it makes it easier / faster to wipe the smaller drive and reinstall windows, and make it the primary drive for your OS and installed applications.&nbsp; Make the small drive all business and the larger for fun, hobbie, storage. alot of porn will fit on a 160...</p>

[INFOSTUD]

<p>A strategy that might make sense:</p><p>1) keep the 80 gig drive as your dedicated boot and application (s) drive</p><p>2) make the new 160 gig drive your dedicated data drive</p><p>3) cut and paste all your data from the 80 giga drive to your 160 gig drive</p><p>4) change the data path for all the applications to the 160 gig drive</p><p>5) create data paths that make sense such as f:dataitunes , f:dataword</p>

[moochcassidy]

Transfer it. because if your a total gimp and drop your hard drive full of 100 gigs of ron and fucking fez and all of last years accounts youll look like a total dick trying to explain to you accountant. trust me on this one bruvva.

[cougarjake13]

<strong>PapaBear</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&nbsp;I got a new 160 gig/7200rpm hard drive for Christmas. My old one is an 80 gig/7200rpm drive. I'll be using both drives. Here's the question. Since they are both the same speed (but the old one is about 2 years old), should I go through the hassle of transferring everything to the new drive (making it the boot drive) or just install it as extra storage? The old one only has 20 gigs of space left, but I could just move a bunch of stuff to the new one.</p><p>So... what do you think?</p><p>i think i need to take some classes to know what the fuck you're talking about</p><p>just kidding</p><p>why waste the space of the new one if you're gonna keep the old one</p>