Empty 5400rpm drive, best utilisation for gaming?

[Ryan_93]

Okay basically a question of curiosity here. I've got my beautiful little gaming pc with a 2TB caviar black 7200rpm hdd which currently has the os and all data and games installed on it. I've recently came into possession of a 320GB 5400rpm hdd which I know isn't great but I figured I may as well use it. Any ideas if there would be a performance increase or decrease from installing games on this drive or simply using it for my os? I realise if being used to boot my boot time would be slower, but would my games see any performance increase?

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

Not really worth your trouble unless you buy another one for a RAID setup, otherwise will do a lot worse than a 7200RPM WD Black.

 

[xoiio]

Yeah, 5400rpm is really only good for data storage, and not stuff that needs to be loaded fast. Video files, music, that sort of thing.

I've had a 5400rpm hard drive as my os drive before, I changed that out fast as I could.