With hard drive capacitys getting bigger and bigger are there any benifits anymore to slaving two hard drives together?
2006-08-26 20:05:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Sure...the ability to have a cheap and reliable backup. I like the little Netgear storage boxes, personally... you can put two drives into them and have the box mirror onto the 2nd drive.
Hard drives are the most common failure point in my systems so having backups is a good thing. I'd rather buy 2, 250GB drives at $50 each than 1, 500GB drive at $175.
2006-08-26 20:11:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
never heard of slaving. you can have two drives in which one is the master and one is the slave. is this what you mean. having two drives obviously gives you more space to work with and you can put the OS on one hard drive and all your files on the other. but most drives these days are cheap. 500 gb hard drives are cheap now.
2006-08-26 20:11:41 · answer #2 · answered by sPoCoKeT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This sounds like you are speaking of combining like sized drives for the purposes of making it one big drive.
A RAID 0 configuration benefits in terms of speed as the data being read and written take advantage of the data channels for each drive.
Just keep in mind, if any of the drives crash, you could potentially loose the data on all of the drives.
2006-08-26 20:19:08 · answer #3 · answered by cptpatriot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most of the multi-hard drive config. this days r the RAID config.
u can use the RAID to make a back up of ur data, or u can use a RAID config, to make two hard drive work together for a faster performance
2006-08-26 20:11:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure what you mean by slaving together.
Ideally you should make it 2 separate drives.
One drive for data and another for windows only.
This way, if windows decide to crash one day, all your data saved on data drive would still be ok and available when you install windows again.
2006-08-26 20:09:19 · answer #5 · answered by sonsuwan 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Getting bigger? yeah definitely
Slaving? No benefit in IDE system, only question of necessity. It held true before, I think it is still true now.
2006-08-26 22:46:44 · answer #6 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
click on the beginning up menu on the backside left of you pc pc show screen. Then, you will possibly desire to work out an icon asserting, "My pc". click that and a window will open giving you get admission to to your obtainable documents and drives. you will possibly desire to work out your no longer uncomplicated tension (C tension) potential by using soaring your mouse pointer over it truly is (the C tension's) icon. If no longer, basically click the C tension icon basically as quickly as. that would desire to coach the potential. i'm hoping that helps!
2016-11-05 21:57:43 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure, when u have 2 HDs, the performance will increase when u read/write from the 2 HDs at the same time, if u were reading/writing on the same HD, the performance will suffer.
2006-08-26 20:08:29 · answer #8 · answered by happy_84 k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋