Games and hard disk drives

My new hdd is arriving in a few days (probably my 3rd one this year...) and im tempted to play a bit with the system. What i mean is, at the moment im running a hdd partitioned to c: (os) d: (games/media).

So, what im thinking now is that,

1) if its worth to switch main hdd's (acronis backup and restore pretty much will take like 10mins so no big deal) but they look pretty much identical speed-wise no im not sure if its really worth it. My current OS drive is a Seagate Momentus 7200.3 and ill be receiving a WD 7200rpm (same cache as well, 16mb).

Now, the question is, is there a difference between those hard drives that will make one more suited for the OS than the other one, since as we all know its not all about speed but technology as well.

2) Ive always liked the OS/Games partition since many games (including steam ones) dont need reinstallation after you format your computer, so you dont have the hassle to redownload/reinstall everything after a format. The question is, i heard a lot of "stories" about people saying that might cause stuttering issues with somes games, anyone has experienced this ? If not im assuming its best to one hdd from OS and another of for games since its going to help loading times a bit here and there (hurray for four hdds x2 = 8 (2 partitions each) in My computer lol).

Reason im posting this in gaming section is because im interested more in the second question since i hate stuttering in games!

Thanks for taking the time to read and looking forward to some answers

 

HDD primarily affects loading times for games, you can probably extrapolate that to explain stuttering ingame if the game is required to load new areas on a very frequent basis.

 

You can also try RAID-0, unless your hard drives are of different sizes. Gives you a nice HDD performance boost (don't expect it to be twice as fast though).

Unfortunately, that involves formatting your hard drive, and you'll also have to put up with reinstallation every time you format.

 

Yea thought about raid 0 but it means ill have to be even more paranoid with backups and that would be an extremely bad thing
Harleyquin07, i mean stuttering when the game is located on another hdd and not the OS hdd.

Im assuming since no one mentioned the first part that they are both exactly the same as far as performance goes ?

 

As mentioned earlier, if you RAID your drives your loading times will likely decrease. If the 2nd HDD is running off USB 2.0 times go up.