i'm a hardcore gamer and currently have this hard drive. i am very happy with the speed and reliability. the price was reasonable and the space is more than adequate. i currently have all of my games on this drive and still have 56% space.

games like COD2, AOE3, BF1942 & 2, HL1&2, and many current space hogging titles.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=808e99f4fa74c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD&locale=en-US

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You're better off keeping your operating system on the slower drive, and keeping the fast drive purely for games. 150gigs may seem to be a lot, but after you've installed 15 or so games, you realize that you could use some more space, especially since newer games want anywhere from 1-5 gigs to install. There's no reason for your OS to waste space on your fast/expensive hard drive, when you won't notice a difference if it's on your slower drive.

Keeping everything else on your larger/slower drive is a good idea, because they don't need the performance boost that playing a game would demand. I would keep the 10k rpm drive solely for games, and use the 500gig for everyday programs, files, music and videos, whatever doesn't merit a performance need.

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