Two hard drive configuration question...

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berzin

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I was planning on running a Western digital Raptor
74 Gb for my applications and another hard drive for my storage, at or over 300 Gb. A friend who is a computer tech told me it would run very nicely. Any opinions on this set-up?
Also, does the other hard drive have to be compatible(from the same company) or can I get one from another, say Seagate? Thanks in advance.
 
You shouldn't have any problems running two hard drives of different sizes as long as you're not doing RAID and one is the master regardless of size or speed. I think it is possible to use RAID with partitions or something with different sized drives but I've never done it and it doesn't sound like that is your question anyways. I have a 300gb maxtor running my OS etc. and a 200gb seagate for storage, and I've never heard of others having trouble with two different makes of drives either as far as the second question.
 
well if you are a hardcore gamer, i would go with more than just 74gb on the one you designated as the application drive. but if you dont game a lot, then i think the setup is pretty good.

just remember to get the same interface.
 
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