desktops in particular
2006-07-16 05:41:30 · 9 answers · asked by nowerk13 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
no
2006-07-16 05:45:23 · answer #1 · answered by Paulknowverylittle 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't need a hard drive!
I run Live CDrom of Linux, and store stuff at Gmail, Yahoo.com, etc. as mail messages and file attachments!!!
Running right now, in several of my 20 desktop environments, with up to 200 open windows on each, from a LiveCDrom of PCLinuxOS, on this 1.3Ghz Duron, behind an IPCOP firewall router based upon a 133mhz discarded pc!
If you really want to run in a hard drive, then anything of about 4 Gb up will hold the entire OS, filesystem, and 5,000 games, with about 2 Gb empty space !!! Just press the 'Install" icon!!!
2006-07-16 05:53:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I run two hard drives so I can mirror them. You do this by going into disk management, converting them to dynamic disks and creating a mirror. Then if hard drive 1 fails you boot from hard drive 2 until you replace the other drive without down time or loss of data or programs.
2006-07-16 05:48:28 · answer #3 · answered by EG345 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The importance of backing up your data and having copies so if something goes wrong with one hard drive, you have all the material on another!
2006-07-16 05:45:03 · answer #4 · answered by Ladida 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One advanatge is that you can use the second hard drive only for your files and documents that you don't want to lose. Then if anything happens to your main hard drive, and you need to reformat, you will still have all your files on the second hard drive.
2006-07-16 05:46:42 · answer #5 · answered by c_wag03 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Redundancy. You can safeguard your data by storing it on more than one drive (hard drives do go from time to time).
2006-07-16 05:45:04 · answer #6 · answered by Du 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if u don't need the storage then no. but sometimes Internet sites put stuff into your computer and if u don't delete it , it takes up space and your computer become slower. Its your choice.
2006-07-16 05:46:16 · answer #7 · answered by A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya why not. You can install two different operating systems in different HDD's and you can use any one by making as active and primary Hdd. You can alos keep as disk mirroring or you can make both hdd as one by making implementing RAID concept......
2006-07-16 06:05:21 · answer #8 · answered by ashwin33 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use my second hd for data back-up
2006-07-16 05:45:18 · answer #9 · answered by scrambledmolecues 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋