2 Hard drives - different speeds -

[JackTheBear]

Perhaps there are X3 users who can assist me before I waste a few hours experimenting.

Situation: You have two hard drives - you intend to have programs reside on one and data on the other. All things being equal - one drive spins faster than the other. i.e. 7200 Rpm vs 5200 rpm vs 10,000 rpm

Question: Would you place the X3 program on the faster drive and the data on the slower drive OR visa versa. I am thinking (dangerous) the data (smart proxy files, saved projects and video files) should be on the faster drive since the "program" probably doesn't use the program drive much and uses more CPU / memory. Now I am just guessing here, but hope someone has done this already.
Thanks for your assistance.

[size=150][b]Summation: I have two hard drives - one is faster than the other - which drive should I put the X3 program on and which should I put the data on?[/b][/size]

Cheers
JackTheBear

[aljimenez]

Suggestion: google performance balancing with multiple hard drives. My guess is that the most important thing to have on the fast drives is Windows paging file, and the data; however I have not done this and thus the suggestion to google for the answers... Al

[DVDDoug]

I'd put the video files on the faster drive. And if you really want to speed things up, try putting your original files on one drive and render the edited output to the other. That way the read/write head doesn't have to jump back-and-forth as the drive switches between reading & writing.

In cases where drive speed is the bottleneck, that will help. Of course, if there's lots of processing & transcoding and the CPU is the bottleneck, it won't make any difference. (It takes about twice as long to copy to a different folder on the same dirve as it takes to copy to a different drive.)

[skier-hughes]

I've had a multitude of different drives on my editing pc.
10,000rpm x 3 for triple booting
7200rpm for data x 2, in raid 0, in raid 1 and now sata drives which I have as raid 0.
I haven't noticed any real difference in timings and I work most days on editing and dvd production.
If they are identical in capacity then I'd choose the faster drive for the data.

[teknisyan]

Hello JackTheBear,

I'd use the slow disk for the system files, where you install Windows, programs and stuff. Since the system will just load everything to the system's memory when running the OS and program, then use the faster drive for data, specially if you will be working with videos and large files that needs to be read quickly, This will allow the program to read/process/write more efficiently.

[JackTheBear]

Thank you all - I will use the faster drive 10,000 speed for data and the 7200 for the program and will report if I noticed a difference
Thanks again for your input. I was thinking the same way.......but sometimes computers make no sense and X3 sometimes makes even less sense - ha

Jack T Bear