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Yup! Well, specifically, any very large directories.
The reason is, as you probably know, Windows is absolutely useless at using hard drives effectively. They get fragmented very easily and very quickly. So if you store loads of discontiguous data such as large media directories on your system drive, the hard drive's head has to move to and fro over the disk surface much, much more in order to read and write the data necessary at startup.
Therefore, if you store all of your media on a separate drive, the system drive generally gets fragmented much less, leading to faster startups.
Defraging can obviously help but with today's large capacity hard drives and the amount of shit that runs in the background, it's generally no longer a viable option. Even defraging in safe mode is a painful and often fruitless experience with XP
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Posted: 2007-07-18 21:58:54
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