will adding more hard drives to my computer slow it down?
2007-03-18 15:40:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Absolutely not.
The computer's performance will not change.
However, it must be said that programs installed on secondary drives may not perform as well as if installed on the primary C drive.
Additional hard drives are usually best used for storage & not for program installations.
By the same token .... keeping the C drive free of non system & non program files may help performance.
Defragmentation of the primary hard drive is most effective when it is at least 30% free.
regards,
Philip T
2007-03-18 16:09:50 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this an open question so here is my my answer, there are many ways to hook up hard drives, IDE Scuzi and serial, you can connect also with a raid drive and can speed it up if you set it up right, but here are things to watch out for. Different speed drives say you install a 66ms Hd and a 133MS Hd if the 66MS hd is C then it will be the speed you go, it depends on how many drives you have connected to the computer, you can get a ata Raid card and install 4 hard drives all running 133Ms and configue them to Raid 0 stripped 1 and double the actul speed. if you have a seril drive with a raid seiral drives can go 166ms and if you stripe them you can double your speed, so depending what you are doing it could slow it do or sped it up, also if you have a drive thats 200 gigs and a drive with 10 gig it will take longer to read thur the 200 gig than the 10 gig, so there are may veriables you are not listing, also some softwares will only support a total amount of HD space, I have a USB 600 gig external drive and it slows the computer down because it's so large.
2007-03-18 23:29:31 · answer #2 · answered by Right 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it does not, drives are virtual partitions of your computer memory, the more number of drives you have, the more partitions, but the size of memory remains same
2007-03-18 22:49:17 · answer #3 · answered by sandeep i 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, this is not possible. You can add as many hard drives as you wish and your motherboard allows.
2007-03-18 23:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by denisgomes 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no
2007-03-18 22:44:01 · answer #5 · answered by Lpod 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not at all.
2007-03-19 02:32:40 · answer #6 · answered by AJ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋