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Hello people.

Currently my setup:

Intel P4 3.0 Ghz
ASUS P4S800D Motherboard
512MB Ram
Western Digital 120 GB S-ATA Drive

My question is this:

is there any advantage of installing a 2nd harddisk?

I have another Western Digital (IDE) 80GB 7200RPM drive lying around. doing nothing (from my old computer)

How would u divide your system between the 2 drives?

1 for Audio
1 for system (windows + utils)

Any words of wisdom would be Appreciated.

Also what are your 2 Cents regarding FAT32/NTFS? As a rule i learnt that FAT32 should be used for audio, but i couldnt get the partitions larger than about 25GB, so my 120GB drive is divided into 4 partitions... is that wrong? should i repartition it another way?

Thanks for any word of advice.

Good day
Lior tal

Yes! Install a second drive.
And set it up the way you describe. Use one drive for OS and apps. And use the other for audio.

With regard to ntfs vs fat32, I don't think there is any real speed advantage of one over the other these days. So I'd say go for ntfs (I'm still using fat32 at the moment).
As far as partitioning goes, having several 25GB partitions isn't neccessarily a bad thing unless you are working on individual projects that are larger than 25GB!
Also the further towards the physical edge of the disk platter you go, the faster the platter spins past the head. So when you setup partitions, you would use the partitions closer to the edge of the disk platter for tracking audio (handles higher track count better) and the inner partitions for keeping your project archives, masters etc.

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Just installed the second harddrive...

Could it be that it causes slower overall performance of my PC?

It seems the computer runs a little slower for some reason.

adding a second drive? no. As long as it is setup correctly, adding a second drive should not affect performance.

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