Will having a dedicated boot hard drive improve my OS performance?

>>56197566

if you move swap/page file to your secondary drive then yes, a little.

if you buy a cheap small ssd as new primary drive your pc will fly.

if it has faster read/write speeds than the drive you would have otherwise used, yes. its why we're using ssd's now for boot drives

I also like it because It allows me to free up my other hdd's, power wise. I'm not against using WD green drives as secondary storage, they hardly use any power in their dormant state, and I find I hardly even access most of them

>>56197566
and for other reasons man.
my hard disk made fucking grinding noises and is now listed as "failed" five minutes ago.
only reason i'm here is because i have an ssd as boot drive with all the shit on it
windows explorer doesn't work, cant use anything that accesses the harddrive. so some programs don't work at all, while some just can't draw from the hard disk anymore

>>56197566

any decent ssd will work way better.

>>56197566
if that drive is an SSD then it will
if it's just another HDD then there'll be almost no difference

You can get a low end 120 GB SSD for less than $40.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820301259