John, since both drives are 7200RPM I'd defiantly leave the OS on the
smaller drive. Moving it to the larger drive will only increase the time the
computer needs to do simple tasks from your Operating system. The larger
buffer on the 120-gig drive will help you when you load large files such as
documents or graphic. The 2-meg buffer on the smaller drive is more than
sufficient for the Operating system and anything you may have on the C
drive.

William Pike
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John Freibergs
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:01 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Additional info on new HDD

Something that I left out on my original post is that both drives are
7200rpm but the 40Gb has a 2Mb buffer and the 120Gb has an 8Mb buffer.  Does
that affect the choices?

Thanks

John

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