one hdd or two?

kevbiss1

kevbiss1

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just bought a samsung 500gb f3, previously installed was a hitachi 320gb
is there any advantage leaving both drives connected,i was gonna just disconnect the hitachi and keep as a backup
i have just cloned the new drive
 
My pc has 3 HD internally, with 2 USB connected to it, and that connected a drobo with 3 HD in that, and my imac has an 1.5TB USB connected, and i have a time capsule too.

Leave them all in lol
 
My latest rig has 1 SSD for OS, applications that are used all the time and games. I then have 2 internal 2TB samsung F4's for storage of music, tv shows, movies as im a download whore. I may need to upgrade to a 3rd one soon as storage is running out.

To put in short, more Hard drives is better as if you run out of space and think oh god i wish i had more space then viola, you already do!

Mehmet
 
kevbiss1 said:
so i guess i can use either to store stuff,it might be best if i evenly use them!
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Depending on how you use your rig and how important your contents matter to you, but I would always recommend 2 as a minimum. eg: in my own setup, due to a past bad experience when I lost everything due to a problem with windows, I always separate windows installation from everything else. Here is my current setup:
1 60gb ssd for windows 7 x64
1 750gb samsung F1 for documents and downloads
1 terabyte samsung F3 for films and videos
1 terabyte samsung F3 for backup (external)
 
Yup, same, ALWAYS put OS + Apps in its own Physical HD, at minimum, a different partition. That way you can reinstall windows with all your data intact. It makes formatting MUCH more painless as you have already separated your data so no need to back up before formatting apart from your emails and bookmarks and may be a few things in My Documents or Downloads or on the Desktop.

Put everything else on another HD, and run another physical HD to back up your most valuable stuff.
 
Personally, I've always run at least two drives. The second drive always has a basic bootable opsys plus is used for quick and easy bak-ups. If I suffer a problem with my primary I can boot my secondary straight away. In addition I have an external third drive for more secure bak-ups.

There is nothing worse than losing a drive, going for a bak-up and finding that's got a problem too. My philosophy is not just make sure you have a bak-up but also bak-up your bak-up.
 
VFM Addict said:
Personally, I've always run at least two drives. The second drive always has a basic bootable opsys plus is used for quick and easy bak-ups. If I suffer a problem with my primary I can boot my secondary straight away. In addition I have an external third drive for more secure bak-ups.

There is nothing worse than losing a drive, going for a bak-up and finding that's got a problem too. My philosophy is not just make sure you have a bak-up but also bak-up your bak-up.
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sorry, but bak-up really bugs me....unless you letter C is broken.


EDIT - I am not sorry, it just bugs me, period lol
 
Move your virtual memory (page file) over to the non windows / non application drive. Providing your new drive is not significantly quicker than old drive, this will give a boost.

If doing the above consider making a 64k cluster size partition with fixed size virtual memory (so it can't get fragmented) on the old drive. According to an MS article the large cluster sizes give better performance for virtual memory. An 8GB size should be plenty, and once setup as above you should not have to change it again.
 
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