Separate hard drive for music good idea?

[tsunami99]

I was wondering if it is better to get two harddrives, one for OS/apps and the other for MP3 music, rather than store everything on one giant harddrive. I say this because MP3s are almost always going to be played in the background while using some application in the foreground. I don't know much about the performance of newer PCs based on XP and P4 plus ATA 100/ 7200 hds, but on my old PII laptop w/ a 4200 hd, my mp3 music tends to skip or get choppy at times while surfing or running other applications requiring disk access.

Is this still an issue with the latest machines today? Otherwise I was thinking if i get two harddrives and reserve one exclusively for music, there won't be any interruptions since no other application would need to share disk access w/ the winamp/media player...

Any opinions or comments on this?

[The Wise One]

personally, i would go with the dedicated drive for the mp3's if you have the money to spend. mp3's are pretty big and if you are constantly adding, moving and deleting them, your hdd will fragment pretty bad and quick thus hurting drive performance. keep em seperate IMHO.