I'm a video editor working with large HD files. I am building a new computer and need some help. I will be running 2 hard drives. One with the operating system and all the programs. And one with all the project files I will be working from. I am keeping these seperate. I will be purchasing a 10k rpm hard drive. So i will have a 10k rpm drive, and a 7200rpm drive. Should I put the OS on the faster drive, or put my working files on the faster drive?
Answer
Unless you are concerned that you might not have enough RAM so will regularly be swapping to disk, I would suggest putting the project work on the faster drive. I expect you will notice a difference when working on large files with processes that are not CPU-bound. You are going to be reading/writing to your working media files a lot more than you will be requiring the machine to read program files (and related data) and write to log files on the system drive.
Also, use what space you have spare on the other drive for local backups, unless you already have such a backup arrangement.
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