How to set up two hard drives (but not three)

I just added a second hard drive (500 GB SATA).  It is currently empty.

My first hard drive any currently-operating system (XP), programs (including PE4), multimedia files, scratch your files, etc.  The first hard disk is about 200 GB with only about 22 GB free.  There are about 70 GB of various video media on the first hard drive.

I read a lot of stuff about the implementation of three or more hard drives (OS/programs on the media, on the other hand, scratch files on a third).

But I only have two disks and will not get a third for this machine.

What is the best thing (s) to pass to the second drive?  (Note that I would rather not move BONES).

Besides everything that I should get to the second drive, is there a mileage by moving or by simply reinstalling PE4 on the second disc (assuming this is possible)?

For the record, I'm not a guru of user or computer power.  I just went into the machine store and claimed a second drive.  I have no idea on RAID etc, but I guess they aren't any RAID or RAID 0 (don't know what I'm talking about).

Thanks for all the ideas.

Dave

Given your hardware, I would leave the OS (obviously) and all programs on your C:\ drive. I propose all the media project, files etc. to D:\, and assigning Scratch Disks even as project, keep on D:\ also. As to your swap file (virtual memory in Windows), I doubt that you would see good imporvement moving to D:\, but you might want to experiment with this. I would also like to experiment with it running with a defined size (about 2.5 x your physical RAM) and also let Windows manage dynamically. I create a project test for experiments and then do the same on this project with a clock at hand. You will probably find that there is little difference between the configurations, and if this is the case, then I would leave just the Page on C:\ file, where it is located now. Where people usually see a big difference it is with a RAID 0 two small, but very fast HDD or a smaller very fast HDD, just for the swap file. Even in this case, the increase in speed may be minimal and could not justify the cost of the addition, say a 10 000 rpm 160 GB SATAII HDD, just for that purpose.

With this third HDD in the example of the harm, the media would go on that, but in your case, I would move to D:\. The idea is to spread as much of the workload, as it is possible, as much physical HARD drive, as you have.

Also, by giving your programs and your operating system a little more "room for manoeuvre", will allow you to eliminate as many bottlenecks, you can.

RAID is either configured via software or hardware. They are a method of combining disks HARD physical in tables. If you have not done this physically, and with the two HARD drives you have, there is no real reason to do, you don't have to worry about this. Suggestions of harm to RAID are to the highest speed (and probably a redundancy built in), in particular with HD media. However, in order to offer their full potential, you need matching 3 physical HDD, or 2 at least. Again, in an ideal world, you use a RAID controller card and does NOT go with a stripped software RAID.

Good luck and you will not be sorry that you added the extra 500 GB. You should notice an increase in speed in many operations and probably more stability with the largest projects.

Hunt

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