Hi People. A question: I have formatted my C: drive on a number of occasions and found that my progs especially games BF2 etc seem to run/load better and faster.So instead of saving stuff to my external F: drive, I formatted it and then I just used it for BF2 would I still get the same result run/load better and faster. Many Thanks
Welcome to the forums Formatting and reinstalling does increase load times as you're basically getting rid of any crap you might have installed. There's also no/minimum fragmentation after a fresh install, so that helps too. In terms of running from an external drive, you'll probably see worse performance. The transfer rate of USB/Firewire/LAN is still considerably slower than that of IDE/SATA (I'm assuming you're using one of the above methods to hook up your external drive?) To keep load times to a minimum, your best bet it to carry on as normal (installing apps/games to your main HDD), but run virus/spyware scans as often as possible, and defragment your drive frequently. Or, if you've got the cash to spare, buy yourself a nice fast SATA drive and use it solely for Program Files and games - you'll still need to defragment the drive, but probably not as often.
Thanks for the welcome & reply. I have 2 x 74Gig 10,000rpm Raptors Set up for Raid 0. So I should continue as I am but run regular virus/spyware scans & defrag. Can you recommend a good anti spyware prog. I am using Softspy at the moment but are they any good ?
Yeah, just do what you're doing now...10,000rpm drives in RAID 0 should be pretty quick as it is (and here's me running stuff from a 5,400rpm drive!) As for anti-spyware, I tend to use SpyBot and Ad-Aware.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but RAID 0 does nothing noticable for gaming, except increase the chance of a failure...
