dual hard disks improve gaming performance?

guys i have two hard disks of 250 GB in my lappy....

there are 3 partitions....Hard Disk 1 is partion C (which has windows) and E (which is recovery)
and Hard disk 2 is partition D......Now i was wondering that since i have windows installed on partion C and i normally install games on C also which means that when i am playing drive D is not being used at all....SO if i install games on D will it improve loading and other hard disk related stuff??? cuz the lappy will excess C for windows files and D for games files which being different pieces of hardware shuld imporve performance theroatically??

 

Not unless your other HDD has better specs.

Only way to increase performance is to RAID them, but that has risks of its own.

 

i mean that since when running a game the computer is reading both windows file and game files from the same HDD doesn't it mean that this would slow performance???

PS: sorry if this seems stupid

 

It shouldn't have much effect unless you are doing a ton of background processes. On my desktop, I would always have my fastest drive as a windows drive, and keep another for data and games. It really didn't make much of a difference.

Raid0 (striped) will give you more performance. But... if one of your drives crashes, you loose ALL of your data.

 

Games usually only use the HDD mostly at load time, and during actual play its barely in use at all or not in use at all.

That said, having a separate hdd for games will make almost no difference, a normal windows environment will never peg down your hdd enough to make it matter, you would have to deliberately make your hdd work by transferring a file or defragmenting it or something to see the difference, and then you would still have performance issues because then your putting your cpu to work also.

So performance gain? No not really. But you still gain alot of space and thats a good thing, esp when games are like 10gig each sometimes.

 

It isn't.
Why would it read windows files while loading the game? The bits of windows it needs are (probably) already in memory.
In fact, for most of the time, it doesn't even read game files. It does that on loading screens, but not really apart from that. (Or it's done in the background while you're playing, so it doesn't affect you whether it's fast or slow)

So no, it won't really help you.

 

In addition to Jalf's comments, most programs nowadays are written to get all HD read/write activities out of the way when loading up or (in the case of games) loading a new map. This is done so that the program does not have to call on the slowest component in the computer while in the middle of doing something.

 

thanks guys i understand now.

 

Tell you what, even after so many years, the HDD is still the bottleneck in performance.
Dual hdd is set to RAID are going to help,but not gaming performance,but will decrease load times, and most often remove stuttering.