hard drive order by speed?

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#1 mrloserskid

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hard drive order by speed?

Posted 03 July 2013 - 01:46 PM

Hello,
I am wondering if hard drives should be ordered by speed?
I have a fast and a slow hard drive. slow is for backup.
When attached one gets labeled hd0 and the other hd1
I doubt this makes a speed difference to the system but does windows prefer to have the faster hard drive as hd0?

Also any input on ntfs or exfat for backup internal drive drive.
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#2 modi123_1

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Re: hard drive order by speed?

Posted 03 July 2013 - 03:06 PM

Yes, you would prefer to have your faster drive to be your boot drive.

As for format - NTFS.

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#3 mrloserskid

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Re: hard drive order by speed?

Posted 07 July 2013 - 09:21 PM

modi123_1, on 03 July 2013 - 04:06 PM, said:

Yes, you would prefer to have your faster drive to be your boot drive.

As for format - NTFS.

thanks

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#4 Flukeshot

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Re: hard drive order by speed?

Posted 07 July 2013 - 09:49 PM

I run my OS from an SSD. Boot times are never higher than 40 seconds. Flash drives and SD cards have relatively high load rates too.

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#5 jjl

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Re: hard drive order by speed?

Posted 09 July 2013 - 12:40 PM

If you are only using the backup drive on windows, then using NTFS. Othwerwise, use exFat since it's more widely supported.

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