HDD Performance question

[jbarr]

I built a Home Theater PC and installed two hard drives. The first is an older 40GB IDE, no-frills drive on which Windows XP Pro and SageTV are installed. The second drive is a fast Seagate 320GB SATA drive. I divided that drive into three partitions:

• S: 180GB for SageTV recordings only, formatted 64K blocks
• M: 100GB containing Music, Photos, and Video directories
• Z: 40GB backup partition to hold weekly full and nightly incremental backups of the OS drive using Acronis True Image

OK, so my question is this: I assume that accessing things like the EPG data, menu data, etc. comes from the SageTV install directory, so would SageTV's performance change at all if I isntalled the SageTV application onto the large SATA drive as opposed to the slower OS drive?

[Mark SS]

Originally Posted by jbarr

OK, so my question is this: I assume that accessing things like the EPG data, menu data, etc. comes from the SageTV install directory, so would SageTV's performance change at all if I isntalled the SageTV application onto the large SATA drive as opposed to the slower OS drive?

I doubt it would make any noticeable difference. Everything will be cached after the first access I'd of thought.