1 4 tb hard drive vs 4 1 tb hard drive

Erick Solis

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Hey guys, I'm planning in building a rig soon, i'm wondering which of these are better.. I will have 10 sata 3 ports and I'm going to be storing lots of info in this computer, yet i'm a performance freak. I wanna know which would be better for speed, i'm going to be working with photoshop, gaming, video processing, and such. Would it be good having 4 1 tb drives and storing pictures in 1, videos in another, and games in another? I normally multitask so I'm kinda positive that if i have 1 4tb drive, the computer is going to get a little slow, doing so much reading and writing.. thanks in advance
 
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Bigger size corrresponds to more time in defragging and backups. Also, if it fails, there's every possibility that you're all out with data (unless you recover it, of course). 4 seperate HDDs may be a bit costlier, but would be a better option in the long run.
Bigger size corrresponds to more time in defragging and backups. Also, if it fails, there's every possibility that you're all out with data (unless you recover it, of course). 4 seperate HDDs may be a bit costlier, but would be a better option in the long run.
 
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