> > Curious what your results would be with a Blue or even better a Black WD hard > drive. > > It's irrelevant to the question at hand. The original poster is comparing Windows XP > x64 Edition to Windows 7 64-bit. The point is that with the exact same hardware on > both, he's seeing performance differences. > > But since you brought it up, unless you're streaming huge amounts of data, there's > very little real-world difference between a 5400 rpm drive and a 7200 rpm hard drive > for most users other than more noise, heat, and energy consumption with a 7200 rpm > drive. > > The ideal setup is a small-ish SSD boot drive for the OS and apps for fast booting > and app launching paired with a large quiet, energy efficient "green" drive for data > storage. > > This is what I have in my arcade cabinet PC and it works swimmingly.
I would put mame on my SSD but I have limited space and I don't want it all to be eaten up by game data
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