Hey. Messing around with an old P2 300, 384 ram. Which Windows/harddisk method would be faster/more efficient?
One 7200 hd with windows and data, or one 5400 hd with windows and a 7200 hd for data?
Thanks in advance.
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Hey. Messing around with an old P2 300, 384 ram. Which Windows/harddisk method would be faster/more efficient?
One 7200 hd with windows and data, or one 5400 hd with windows and a 7200 hd for data?
Thanks in advance.
your system files should be on the fastest drive.
Thanks, that makes sense. Would the size of the 7200 drive make a difference in your answer? 7200 = 250g, 5400 = 4.3g.
Any drive with oly 4.3GB of space is old and lacks modern technology and speed. I would just toss it out. It's too small and too slow to be of any real use. Benchmark it if you don't believe me:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/HDTach_d672.html
A P2 300 MHz system would only have an 32GByte drive limit if I remember correctly.
Stick with Windows 95 or 98SE.
Or try Linux if you want something faster.
A BIOS flash will often get you past the 32GB limit, usually to a 128GB limit.
One of my clients, an insurance broker, has one machine, a P2-266 with Windows95 and I am always astonished at how quick it is with most things.
Actually, right now I am running XP home SP2 with the OS on the old 4.3 and have a 250 as a second drive. It really runs pretty well considering how old most of is. No problems with drive size recognition and still on the original bios! Just seeing if I could get to run faster, but that's what this forum is all about, right? Thanks.
It may run now, but the drive is old and likely to fail much sooner than the new drive would. As I've said, it's also slow. That's what you asked, yes?
Yeah, thanks for all your replies.