better to make larger Hard drive the master?

[The Grinch]

Is it best to use the larger size hard drive as the default/master?

My computer came with a 80 gig hard drive, which i cant do anything with. My music folder is over 10gigs, and i take alot of pictures so thats another 50 gig right there. SO i went and bought a 320 gig seagate sata hard drive.

I just reformatted my main hard drive a week ago, so i really don't want to redo that all over again and install the os on the new larger hard drive.

do you think though that it'll be best for me to make the master hard drive the bootable OS one? I think the system might run faster. Mostly because the default location of the program files and such is on the c drive.

I know years ago when i used partitions it'd be much slower to get data from one of the other partitions. Will i notice that with an actual separate hard drive?

What would you all suggest?
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[LP-Harvey]

Use the drive with the higher RPM as your master, regardless of the size.

In this case, bigger doesn't mean better. If you want better performance, the faster the RPM on the booted drive, the better.

[The Grinch]

The new drive is 7,200 rt/min. I don't know how fast the one is that came with my pc.
edit:
I just went to the Dell site and it says the old hard drive is

[LP-Harvey]

Then it's really up to your personal preference.

My computer has three hard drives that have the same speeds. One's a 40gb, another's 80gb and the biggest is 200gb.

I use the 40gb drive for my primary OS (Vista). 80gb for file storage. 200gb for program files. Everything runs just fine.

I know it consumes slightly more power when running document-based apps, but it avoids a lot of lag time when there's competing read-writes (like your OS requesting a system file (dll) while you're trying to run a media application (game). When the read-write is being done on two separate drives as opposed to two separate partitions, it's slightly faster.

Keyword: Slightly.

HDs' are so fast these days that it actually doesn't matter. So it's really just personal preference.

[martinz]

I second LP-Harvey, size does not matter as long as your you have sufficient capacity for the OS. Speed matters for the master drive, and thats why many people prefer to install Western Digital Raptor Hard Disk for their master drive. This drive have much higher speed (in rpm) than most other drives.

[ckinikar]

Not only you should decide the master drive on capacity itself.
There are other factors too.
Very first is the condition of the hard drive,any one drive has found bad sectors ,then it is better to keep other drive as master regardless of its capacity.
Also rpm is also factor should consider,higher rpm drive should be master.
If rpm bad condition of both the drive is same then you can decide any one of the hard drive to keep as master,as per capacity.If you are providing enough capacity for primary partition ie 20-25 Gb less /more depending on what type of application s/w u r going to install in future and other hard drive of some more capacity like 80Gb can be used for data backup.This will not cause low performance at all.
So conclusion is primary partition has enough space then u can use higher capacity drives for backup. This system is followed in industry not necessary primary master should have max. capacity than rest.