using 2.5 and 3.5 hdd in desktop?

[tony_ong]

Hi,
Like to check if using a additional 2.5 hdd that I have spare will help to improve the performance if my cyrrent system?

Or will I be better off leaving it with jus one 3.5 hdd that I currently have?

TIA

 

[poor_poor]

Hi,
Like to check if using a additional 2.5 hdd that I have spare will help to improve the performance if my cyrrent system?

Or will I be better off leaving it with jus one 3.5 hdd that I currently have?

TIA

adding any addition HDD do not improve any performance, it only give you more storage.

 

[Entry Level PC]

Hi,
Like to check if using a additional 2.5 hdd that I have spare will help to improve the performance if my cyrrent system?

Or will I be better off leaving it with jus one 3.5 hdd that I currently have?

TIA

It will improve performance only if you use "RAID 0".
But the best solution is to use an SSD for your OS instead.

 

[d4rkst4r123]

Using a 2.5 drive as your main system drive may actually hurt performance as 2.5 hdd usually are at 5400rpm. Their read write speed is usually slower than 3.5 hdd as 3.5 hdd are at 7200rpm

 

[hsComu]

one option would be to go with WD VelociRaptor 2.5" drive (it is 10Krpm) but usually the reason to have 2.5 in desktop is to have silent pc.
once you place system on dedicated drive it will improve performance (without any stripes/raid0)

but as Entry Level PC said it will be better to get 120Gb ssd for system only (you don't need 256Gb as system won't take so much space and performance gains from ssd with bigger size won't be used by system purposes anyway)