Difference between having 1 or 2 drives ?

[DGP_2000]

Just wondering the differences on having 1 or 2 drives in a system ?

Except for backup & more space , is there a need for 2 drives or can you get away with 1 with jst partitioning it for C: & D: ?

Don't need one for backup because I have a CD/RW & make backups regularly .

Is drive access faster with 1 ?

 

[blah]

Don’t see the goal of yer question here, you have answered it yerself already, but probably you need a stamp of approval, hah, here it is: You have a CDRW, you don't need space, you can partition the drive. So, if you like more noise, get another one in, if you don’t, then don’t...

It's not too late yet...

 

[LordKaos]

You could buy a big drive (75 gb ) instead of 2 small (45 gb)
if that´s what you mean!

P.S: The sizes i gave you are for the IBM Deskstar (the best drive!)!

Better burn in Hell with some company than freeze in Heaven all alone

 

[Tempus]

Nah, better to get two small 45GB HD's and set them up in RAID 0 configuration for a nice boost.

- I don't write Tom's Hardware Guide, I just preach it"

 

[Guest]

Personally, I like having 3 drives. I have one for the OS/Applications and vob files (7200 rpm WD) one for MP3s and storage (5400 rpm Maxtor) and a 4.5 gig uw scsi for burning/working. When I encode/copy large mpegs and try to read/write to them with another app, it really thrashes the drive and slows it down. Streaming off my 27 gig puts no load on the other two. This is probably overkill for most things, but it works well for me. YMMV.

 

[Guest]

strange, very strange...

"akuna mutata" braza...

 

[BrainStorm]

Like another one said you can have a nice performance boost implementing Raid 0, or just by putting the OS on a drive and the swapfile on the other.

It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick!

 

[Guest]

Two drives are better then one. Make sure they are on seperate IDE controllers (ie. not master & slave on the same controller)

-Put your swapfile on on one disk, and your OS, most disk-intensive apps & most accesed files on the second. This is a pretty good boost.

-If one drive dies, you don't lose everything.

And for the people suggesting RAID 0. How many times have you lost data to a drive failure (if you haven't yet, you will)? Now double that.


In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.

 

[RocKo]

RAID is more expensive, and I't doesint seem like thats what you would want anyways, and you probobly dont have a RAID motherboard anyways, You prob have a small hard drive right now, just get another fast small hard drive and You'd have 2 partitions there. Use the fastest HD for your os and imp. apps, other one for.. well extra space heh.



"I left a track of posts, and lost track of time..." <font color=red><b>-RocKo</b></font color=red> 😎