How to determine which setup is less slow?

[limitedaccess]

This is more of a comparison of turtles but...

I currently have a WD5000aaks (500gb) short stroked to 300gb as my main drive. It has the OS, page file, and applications (including games) on it. Other data is stored on other drives.

I have a wd10ears (1tb) sitting around (from what I understand I need to adjust the idle head parking if i use this as an OS drive). What is the best way to determine which drive is faster (or less slow haha) as a primary HD? HD Tune? But which numbers are most important?

Better yet should I split everything over both drives? Maybe sell both and convert that to a single faster 7200rpm drive?

Right now SSDs for the size I require aren't in the price range I am willing to pay (given their brand).

 

[Aesma]

Early EARS had horrible small files performance (I have one of those), and are green drives anyway, so no need to test, keep the 7200rpm drive. Or get a 64GB SSD and learn to manage like a lot of us did/do.

 

[limitedaccess]

I guess I will consider selling both and moving to a Caviar Black or 7k1000.

I've been looking into a SSD, but larger sized ones at 120gb+. I considered a 64gb SSD before, but after awhile it seemed like that would be way to small.