Performance gain running OS and programs on separate drives?

[stop!theradio]

I have two hard drives installed, both SATA, 7200 RPM, 8mb cache, neither less than 160gb.

Would there be any noticeable performance gains if I were to run ONLY the OS (Windows Vista Home) on one drive and ONLY programs on the other?

Any info would be great, and thanks in advance.

 

[Team Obi Juan]

You'd have a pain in the ass if you ever had to format your OS partition. Shortcuts, registry, etc. Reinstall progs anyway. Not worth it if there is a gain.

 

[billb]

Would there be any noticeable performance gains if I were to run ONLY the OS (Windows Vista Home) on one drive and ONLY programs on the other?

Basically, no. No noticable differences will be seen.

 

[stop!theradio]

Ok so the consensus thus far seems to be "no" on the performance gain issue, and thanks for the answers so far.

Is there anything I can do with this second drive to increase performance at all? Or at least have efficiency levels up?

 

[vsboxerboy]

put your swap file on the second drive if it is smaller and your media and other long term storage if it is larger than your other drive.