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]

Originally posted by 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.

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]

Originally posted by massacreinfallx
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]

Originally posted by Lord AnthraX
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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