Using 2 hard drives?

Kevin McCutcheon · Dec 28, 2014

If i wanted to add a second internal hard drive to my computer, just for storage, do I need to configure anything? or is it plug and play?

Someone mentioned something called RAID? is that needed for just a storage drive?

RunLuke · Dec 28, 2014

Plug and play, you may need to initialise and format the disk in windows disk manager.

You don't need raid, that's for two or more disks.
RAID is, simply put, combining several disks to get either more and faster (and less secure) storage (1 x 1 tb = 2 tb) or safer storage (1 x 1 tb = 1 tb but data mirrored on both disks so that a drive failure doesn't affect your data), RAID means Redundant Array of Inexpensive / independent Disks, so that sort of explains it a bit.

i7Baby · Dec 28, 2014

Raid you can use 2 ways with 2 drives to form one drive - striping - a bit of data on each of them - twice as fast and twice the space as one but if one fails they both do. Or mirroring - both have the same data, if one fails you can still get the data back. RAID needs to be set up.

I think it's better just to have 2 drives - and do regular back ups. Then its just plug, format and play.

leedreamer189 · Dec 28, 2014

You might even want to start thinking about adding a smaller SSD

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