2 hard drives at once?

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I have a 160gb western digital 7200rpm hard drive right now, can I add a new 500gb seagate hard drive and combine the capacity to 660gb? Would it be exactly like if I had a single 660gb hard drive? Or would it be different? Also, could I transfer everything even my os from my 160gb hard drive to the new 500gb one?
 
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Yes. That us just how it works.

This is an idea of what you can do with multiple drives or even multiple partitions on one drive.

In this case c: is windows d: is files f: is some games: h: is windows 8. The missing letters are optical drives.
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I am not calling your 160 slow because it is old or new. It is slow because platters now hold more data per square inch. So the 500 should be faster.

Just to give you an idea of how far drives...