Multiple hard drives???

[Melm0610]

I have a 250gb SATA WD Caviar and Im thinking about adding another 160 or 200gb hd. Will having 2 hard drives affect the performance of my computer?

 

[Lord AnthraX]

It depends.


You can Do RAID0 if you get another 250 gb.

RAID stand for Redundant Array In disks.


Basically its alot faster.

but if you get a bigger or smaller drive and you add it on you wont see a diffrence at all.

 

[Melm0610]

Most likely the new drive will be smaller. Probably 160gb

 

[b1gapl]

You won't notice the difference if you were to add that extra hard drive.

 

[massacreinfallx]

It depends.


You can Do RAID0 if you get another 250 gb.

RAID stand for Redundant Array In disks.


Basically its alot faster.

but if you get a bigger or smaller drive and you add it on you wont see a diffrence at all.

Rudundant Array of Independant Disks*

 

[Trifid]

Saying there will be no performance difference is sort of false. If you have a program that uses alot of memory so uses alot of page file and uses a hard drive for reading and writing alot than there will be better performance. But the only time I have ever done something that did that was transfering a video to BMP frames.

Also, if you use record games with a program like FRAPS than having it on a independant HDD increases game performance.

 

[theshonen8899]

There's no real reason to fear hard drives slowing down your computers performance.

You won't notice a difference.

 

[Lord AnthraX]

Rudundant Array of Independant Disks*

stupid emo kids.....Always have to be right just to make them selves feel a tiny bit better about them selves.

 

[massacreinfallx]

stupid emo kids.....Always have to be right just to make them selves feel a tiny bit better about them selves.

lol your just upset because im more 1337 h4xx0rrz then YOU

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