Is the hard drive my computers brain? (programs, music, projects, etc)

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
H

HeroponLuigi

Honorable
Nov 4, 2013
109
0
10,680
Ok quick question, If me and a friend exchanged hard drives would he basically own my computer and I his? If I was to buy a new case, mobo, ram, gpu, cpu but keep my old hard drive would it basically behave like my old computer? Would my music still be there, would all my programs like itunes and windows media player for example work without problems, if I was making an indie game or a movie would I be able to pick up where I left off?
 
Solution
UltimateDeep
Yea your computer would still behave normally.

Although the CPU is considered as the general brains as being the component that processes all the data, I can consider Storage as brains for storage before processing.

The CPU, RAM and Storage, they all work in Tendem as I would probably call the Combined Brain.
Sort by date Sort by votes
UltimateDeep

UltimateDeep

Distinguished
Oct 29, 2011
127
0
18,710
Yea your computer would still behave normally.

Although the CPU is considered as the general brains as being the component that processes all the data, I can consider Storage as brains for storage before processing.

The CPU, RAM and Storage, they all work in Tendem as I would probably call the Combined Brain.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
H

HeroponLuigi

Honorable
Nov 4, 2013
109
0
10,680


thanks for a great answer. Im new to all of this computer stuff but I find it fascinating to say the least. I have a little experience with unity a game development engine and I want a more powerful computer but at the same time I dont want to lose my work. Well a lot simpler than I thought, just get all new better parts except for my hard drive.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
H

HeroponLuigi

Honorable
Nov 4, 2013
109
0
10,680


what do you mean by "you would have to get it fix with windows unless using a different system"?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
H

HeroponLuigi

Honorable
Nov 4, 2013
109
0
10,680


did not know this. Wont all my stuff be erased if I format?

 
Upvote 0 Downvote
H

HeroponLuigi

Honorable
Nov 4, 2013
109
0
10,680


ok. I always thought when people said they upgraded their system that they just changed a part like you would on a car. Didn't know they basically had to start fresh. So let's say your a part in your computer went bad, would you then have to replace it with the exact same part for you to continue using it like you were before it messed up? BTW thanks for all your help man, I'm learning a lot, I tried searching for this before asking but found nothing.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
johnnyb105

johnnyb105

Dignified
Feb 18, 2013
4,607
0
16,960
Yes in a way its like a car cpu,ram ,dvd burners ect you can replace vid cards and such but when you take your hard drive out that's your storeage that holds windows so anytime you replace a drive your new drive has no info on it to run your system so you need to re-install everything. As others have said your cpu and mem are the brains but lets think of the hard drive as your stomach it hold everything you put in it.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom