Two HardDrives

[ebittner]

Does or has anyone ever had a computer with two harddrives on it?
I have not but I have tired to make one and it did not work out to well. I think it would be very usefull because you could store all your info on both so if one gets fried you have a back up.
What do you think?

[Arden]

.. I couldn't live without anymore.

[Bryce W]

I have 4 in mine currently. Having multiple harddrives is a great idea because it is easier to store things and safer.

What I typically do is put my operating system and applications on one harddrive, and my other data such as music, videos etc.. on another harddrive.

I image the operating system harddrive and in the event it fails I can buy a new one and get everything back to the way it was in about 5 minutes.

As for the music/video folder, I've lent it to friends and put it in their computers at lans so we can leech much more faster and not clog up the network. By allowing this my friends have a copy of all my music/videos so they are my backup if that drive fails. :)

[ebittner]

That is crazy Knuckles10 I have never heard of someone having that many harddrives before that must be really nice to have that many. I do not think I will eve have over two but it could happen.

[Goob]

I've got 3 hard drives in mine
2 x 120GB and 1 x 200GB plus an external Hard drive (20GB)
Plus am thinking of getting another 200gb or bigger

[Netman]

I only have one becasue I do not use that much space at all but I could see it being usefull for backups.

[raju79]

I am having two hdd in my computer. It is very easy make one hdd as primary master and second one as primary slave. It will work.

Thanks

[tfw_c]

I have two HDD, one to store OS..and other one to store all my important data... :D

[bigbrother]

I also have two harddrives in my PC (Primary Master and Primary Slave)...i even used a USB harddrive to store more data or backup of my files just incase my PC has collapse...it is 80G USB Harddrive...

[boost]

I have 1 hard drive, but i partitionated it into 2 different drives :cool:

[gunslinger]

2 in my desktop system a 320 gig, and a 250 gig with two external 80 gig drives. getting a 500 gig drive in a few months

[Blues]

My last desktop had two a 120 and a 40 my new just has a single 160. I did like many 1 OS drive and 1 files/storage drive. I suggest generally have the smaller of the two be the OS/software drive and the larger be the storage. I would like to do for my next 2 or 4 drives with a raid that mirrors the drives in use. I think partioning a single drive is more or less a waste.

[gunslinger]

My last desktop had two a 120 and a 40 my new just has a single 160. I did like many 1 OS drive and 1 files/storage drive. I suggest generally have the smaller of the two be the OS/software drive and the larger be the storage. I would like to do for my next 2 or 4 drives with a raid that mirrors the drives in use. I think partioning a single drive is more or less a waste.

Its not a waste if you want to set up a secure zone for acronis backup, or maybe you only have one drive and you want to use encryption on a partition

[Blues]

Just a waste in the way most people do it the is obviously purpose to it. I just don't get splitting it when your not doing anything more then treating the same drive like it is two and not changing how data is handled on them. I see people do it this way most the time so in those cases mostly a waste

[dracken]

Currently have 3 hard drives. 1 cd burner and 2 dvdrw drives.

My wife's machine currently just the 1 drive but 2 dvdrw drives, 1 with lightscribe and 1 without.

[focuz]

I'm starting to build a workstation with raid to make it go faster, so it has to have 2 drives.

[gunslinger]

I tend to stay away from raid 0. I know it can make a difference in speed but you double your chances of disk failure. As far as partitioning goes, i agree the way most people do it is a waste. If you are just going to break that new 400 gig drive up into 10 chuncks just to say you have 10 drives in your system thats stupid.

[idiot_savant]

I have 1 hard drive, but i partitionated it into 2 different drives :cool:

same as mine :)

[SteveF]

If you are talking mirrored drives or RAID 0 - go for it. It's the best way to go for harddrive crashes. But it doesn't protect against anything else. If you get a virus or such both drives will have the problem. I have two drives and then I have 6 external storage drives to protect the data, etc. USB for storage devices is the best thing since Steve Jobs discovered FreeBSD.:cool:

[tkrabec]

Raid 0 Striping = NO FAULT TOLERANCE AND 2x CHANCE OF FAILURE (this is
typically used for speed increases)
Raid 1 Mirroring = Fault tolerance against drive failure

Raid is not a backup, it provides protection against single Drive failure (or raid 0 speed increase) although Raid 6 provides against 2 drive failures.

As mentioned before Raid does not protect against virus damage

Backup is still needed to protect against missing data and severe damage or failure. Volume shadow copy does provide some protection against accidental/malicious deletion/modification.