Hard drive speed
Hard drive speed
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Although the spinning speed can make a difference, usb 2.0 will max out at about 30MB/s
Spinning speed also doesn't always mean the drive will be slower or faster, for example a 2.5" 1TB drive spinning at 5400rpm can be faster than a 3.5" drive spinning at 7200rpm because of a higher density. The seek time is lower because the read head has to travel less.
Use a benchmark to get a good idea as to which drive is faster. I would suggest that if your 2nd drive is much slower than your primary drive, do in fact use your primary drive. Assuming you have a lot of RAM it would be idle for the most part either way due to the redundancy of the swap file.