Why do people with 2 hard drives do this?
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By keeping your operating system on it's own hard drive and placing your programs and data files on a separate drive you keep the operating system clean and running efficiently. It also makes finding data and programs alittle easier. This is similar to how big business mainframe computers store their operating systems, program files, and data. You will never find mainframe computers storing data files in the same storage area as its operating system.
Also by doing this you can set up a raid 1 configuration for yoru operating system cleanly. Raid 1 is a mirrored/striped pair of disks, the computer only uses 1 but makes a complete backup identical to the one in use so that should your primary drive fail, you have an immediate available backup to switch to without having to reinstall everything from scratch. Later you can always add back in another new drive and redo the striped set so you can maintain the spare drive in case it should happen again.
Nope. The only reason I would do something like this is if I ran certain media programs that would take up large amounts of data storage. Such as a movie maker program. You want to keep the data files away from the OS drive because the OS will sometimes rearrange the data that is stored on the OS drive.
its for safety, if your OS crash, you still have the data working,, and you can connect it to any machine, in case of emergency..
It's not faster. Generally when people add a second drive it's usually some time after they bought their system, so naturally when they buy a second drive it's going to be larger...and cheaper... than the drive that came with their system.
Also, some people use 10,000rpm Western Digital Raptor drives as the primary drive, coupled with a larger secondary storage drive
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Again, why do preteen morons on this site continuously thumbs down what they have no understanding of? Absolute fuckholes. <rolls eyes>
@autotech212000, in case you're the one that thumbs downed everyone in this thread..no one said anything about RAID. The OP in this thread is NOT talking about RAID. Additionally, using two different sized drives for RAID is not a headache at all. The drives may be different sizes, however, the striped volumes will be the same size. Know what you're talking about before you post! <rolls eyes>
Well, I do something similar.
I have my first SATA HDD with 16mb cache and 10000rpm run only Windows and my Programs. Since the drive is fast I get a faster response when booting and running games.
My second HDD is a normal SATA so I use it for files because you dont need a fast HDD for accessing files
This is often used if someone has a raptor hard drive.
These hard drives run at 10,000rpm, and the normal hard drives run at 7200rpm. So this makes the raptors faster, so if someone put their OS on the rapter, then it would run quicker, and there other hard drive would be for storage, and then if they got another, so a raptor and two hard drives, they would have the raptor, and set up the other two hard drives in raid. (which basically makes them more secure/faster etc.. depending what raid you set up)
The biggest raptor you see at the moment is 150gb i think, and there ALOT more expensive than ordinary hard drives, but also run noticibally faster.
JUst putting in my 2 cents. The first requirement of any raid wether it is raid 0 or raid 1 or raid 1/2 or 5 is to have the same size drives. not a 40 gig and a 300 gig.
So the person doing the 40 and 300 they run windows on the 40 to access the info faster and to make windows faster and the 300 to save all their files on. It aslo makes games run better.
Using different size drives in any raid is asking for headaches.
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