I am sure that it is possible to have 2 hard drives but im not sure.
Please help me, I am planning on building my own computer and put two Seagate 750GB 16MB Buffer ATA-100 Hard Drives in it.
2006-09-28 20:07:43 · 11 answers · asked by Elite117 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
No! Your can have more! You can have 6-8 IDE Harddisk and 2-4 SATA Harddisk or more, Depending on your motherboard!
My advise is: You get a 40-60GB SATA harddisk for your system disk, That because SATA run faster then IDE. And why only 40-60GB for system disk? that because it going to save a lots of time when you maintain your system like defragmentation & harddisk scaning.Imanging that you got your 750GB on! It got to take you the whole dat to do it! And please us it only for your OS and application software and for your default system file handling.
Please keep all your data in your second hard dirve and an External backup harddisk. This way ,your data will be safe, if you will to have a virus attack, usually only your C drive will be corupted. You can have a big 2nd harddisk, which dont need to do defragmentation & harddisk scaning or get corupted,
2006-09-28 20:59:07 · answer #1 · answered by FIXIT 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes ... to avoid complications though install only one HD while loading windows, then, if you plan on partitioning the drives do it immediately after the windows install ...also, to avoid possible problems put the HD that ur using for windows on the END of the ata cable and be sure ur using the smaller guage 80-wire ata cables... this has been the best practice for me. its no problem installing up to 4 ATA devices on a two-ata motherboard .... if you want more than 4 then you need an ata expansion card or a motherboard that supports both sata and ata and have more options including raid.
2006-09-28 20:14:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can have as many as you have drive bays.
Advice
Load the first with just the System Items, ie no software.
Allocate the rest as you will and open all software including its attributes.
Use your last drive and clone the first.
Now you have back up if your PC folds.
Downside. You will be slightly increasing the referral time but still quicker than a fragmented drive.
Plus. A lightning start up and better speeds with graphics.
2006-09-28 20:31:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is perfectly possible to have two hard drives in one computer I have 2 in mine. One is the primary or master drive the other is the slave and on mine used just as a storage drive but it could be used for anything
2006-09-28 20:42:00 · answer #4 · answered by captainlincs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is possible I have two removable hard drives (they are in plastic housing) and they fit in the slots in my tower PC. Because I used all the available cables I have to swap the drives around and I use the 2nd drive for testing new software.
You can also consider using external UBS drive ideal for storing movies/pictures/audio they cost around £60 for a 80 GB,hope this helps
2006-09-28 20:38:16 · answer #5 · answered by raysheauk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1st , u move the "jumper" to the 1st pos in the first one.(Make it as master)
Then remove the "jumper" to the 3rd pos in the second one,(Make it as slave)
U can follow the instruction on the back of yr HDD.
Finally, put the 1st HDD into the comp through a cable using IDE standard, and the 2stHDD into the same cable but in the rest pos of the cable.
Good luck
If it doesn't work >>>Try to exchange the 2 pos on cable.
2006-09-28 21:16:24 · answer #6 · answered by ken 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a machine can support as many hard drives from c: to z:
most new machines come with 1, but special built machine have 4 on a raid controller.
so there would be any problems having 2..
2006-09-28 20:13:59 · answer #7 · answered by Paultech 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just make sure the mb you are planning on getting will support such large drives, I have seen where only 132 gigs were only able to be seen due to limits on mb.
2006-09-28 20:27:12 · answer #8 · answered by yugo65 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Set the HDD with OS as master drive and Others HDD as slaves
2006-09-28 21:46:15 · answer #9 · answered by nuwa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use one as a MASTER the other as a SLAVE, see the drives for jumper setings, or go to SEAGATE for the specs
2006-09-28 23:05:13 · answer #10 · answered by david g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋