footballdude2k3
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do you guys suggest running multiple hdds now? why or why not, i have read about them online a bit, not sure what to do, if i do i will get 2 500gb western digitals, if not, just one
multiple hdds
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What exactly are you looking for with multiple HDDs? --RAID array? Extra storage?
There are benefits to having more than one Drive, however you decide to use it. However, you must decide whether the benefits justify the cost of purchase. I myself have two drives, but every partition on each one serves a specific purpose. To me, The cost is justified, as compared to what I do and the information I keep stored.
There are benefits to having more than one Drive, however you decide to use it. However, you must decide whether the benefits justify the cost of purchase. I myself have two drives, but every partition on each one serves a specific purpose. To me, The cost is justified, as compared to what I do and the information I keep stored.
footballdude2k3
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well i was thinking about setting up raid, plus if i had 1tb of storage i wouldnt have to upgrade for about a week and a half
footballdude2k3
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i read up on raid and i didnt quite understand it, what does it all do?
abstractposer
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well basically a raid's main purpose is redundency. its so that if one hard drive goes down, you still have another one running. now some other advantages of running a raid are speed and space. you will increase the speed when your computer is searching for information. and you get more space. you will need to decide which raid to run. there is like 10 different raid setups
It's not often much faster if you are using it at home nor will it always give you more space. RAID1 uses the same amount of space you get (it mirrors the drives so they contain the exact same stuff). For it to be noticably faster you generally need to be doing specific tasks with a certain type of RAID or the difference will generally be very small
footballdude2k3
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ok thanks for the info guys
Geoff
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What complete BS.
Platinum
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[-0MEGA-];872087 said:
hahahahaha - I use external HDDs for movies and music. I have so much music, if my hard drive crashed it would take years to get all my music back. Actually, my hard drive crashed a few months ago, luckily I did have an external for my music because it would have all been gone... not to mention my laptop could not store all my movies/music either. I have 40gigs worth of music and movies so, yeah...
Geoff
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I'm not really sure why you are quoting me, but there is nothing wrong with having multiple hard drives connected to a motherboard. After all, thats why you see newer motherboards with 6-10 onboard SATA connections!
Platinum
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i quoted you because i was laughing at what you said. i didn't want to laugh and people not know what i was laughing at.
regardless, my old desktop only had 80gb at first, i wanted more space so i just bought a 2nd 80gb hard drive. Much easier than buying 1 160gb hard drive and having to reload a lot of stuff...
regardless, my old desktop only had 80gb at first, i wanted more space so i just bought a 2nd 80gb hard drive. Much easier than buying 1 160gb hard drive and having to reload a lot of stuff...
JLV2k5
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This is wrong. People successfully run multiple HDDs all the time.
Footballdude, what exactly do you need one terabyte of hard disk space for? Lots of music, movies, games, video collector?
footballdude2k3
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yes, yes, yes, and yes, lol, yes to all, i love to download random things, i love to have movies stored on my cpu, i love games, new and old, i dont like having to delete and reload things.
If Omega's post as well as this one aren't enough, run as many hard drives as you want, it wont hurt your motherboard.
