2 HDD or 1?

[Eve21]

Hey guys I'm build a new gaming computer would two 500gb hdds be better than 1 tb drive? What are the advantages of having more than one hdd?

 

[Rusting In Peace]

It depends on how you want to use the drives.

If you want to go down the path of RAID you can either configure RAID 0 for performance gains at the cost of reliability or RAID 1 for reliability at the cost of capacity.

If you aren't interested in RAID then having two hard drives can be beneficial if you want to separate your operating system from your data. I.e. you have Windows installed on one drive and have all your saved games, music, videos etc on the other.

But if you are just looking from a capacity perspective then a single large drive is better.

Is there any reason why you'd be going for a 1TB drive instead of 2TB?

 

[Eve21]

would 2 500gb drives be faster than one 2tb drive? Like would startup be faster or load?

 

[Eve21]

Also how should I set up the drives? os and games or os and other files?

 

[Rusting In Peace]

Without using raid the size and number of drives becomes irrelevant to startup / load time.

Personally I install the OS and programs / games on one hard drive and use the other as storage. So this is where all my music, videos etc would go.

 

[Eve21]

ok thanks I think I might go with 2 500gb drives

 

[Eve21]

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