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Well i am currently having a computer built 4 me and have a 160 gig hard drive. do u think i should have another one in as well. who of u have 2 hard drives
 
Get yourself an external HDD with e-SATA and USB 2.0, so you can run it full-speed at home on e-SATA and use it on other PCs with only USB 2.0 at really decent speeds (about 20MB/s on mine).
 
I have 5 harddrives. 3 in my machine and 2 I put in external enclosures.

You can always buy another SATA hardrive later when you run out of space and install it yourself. SATA harddrives are very easy to install.
Only if you wan't your data to be mobile get an external SATA usb enclosure.
 
the problem with external hard drives with me is that they can get very dusty extremely quickly as we live on a dirt road. You should look at the state of my tv lol
 
I use an 80Gb SATA2 for my OS + programs, partitioned into 2 halves. I use a 160Gb SATA2 for my games and data. I've also allocated a 2Gb partition at the beginning of the 160, for a fixed-size pagefile. That way the swapping is handled by a different controller to the one which my OS is on.
 
Makro is having a special on external hdds - I picked up a funky looking 250gb Seagate FreeAgent for under a grand for my Airport Extreme base station.
Safferbeauty said:
the problem with external hard drives with me is that they can get very dusty extremely quickly as we live on a dirt road. You should look at the state of my tv lol
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In that case you should see how much dust is being sucked into your pc :eek:
 
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we are building an upstairs so the computer will be in my new room so it should be better then. Sadly i cant just go all the way to macro as i live aat least 2 hours away from the closest store. That is another reason why i am getting my friend to build it. He can get cheaper parts for me.
 
I'm also on 3 internal, 2 in a NAS and 1 external = 2tb

I bet peterch has a lot of space with his video editing ;)
 
Why go for 160GB drives? 250GB has better performance (16mb vs 8mb cache) and 320GB gives you best bang/space for buck
 
i am not building the computer and i prefer maybe having 2 smaller hard drives. the 2 smaller ones will be fine 4 what i need.
 
I would recommend having more than 1 hard drive with at least two of them having an operating system installed. . . . This will allow you to recover a from any problems occuring on your active drive which makes it much easier than re-installing all the time :p
 
Safferbeauty said:
i am not building the computer and i prefer maybe having 2 smaller hard drives. the 2 smaller ones will be fine 4 what i need.
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Why do you need two small ones if you can have 1 big one? You can always partition the bigger drive to think it's two or more. ;)
 
Safferbeauty said:
do u think i should have another one in as well. who of u have 2 hard drives
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I have 2 partitions (50 + ~185) on my main PC's 250GB drive. For easy formatting of bungled windows. Then my gaming PC has a single 40GB, then my file server has 2 x 320GB and 1 x 200GB and my TV-connected PC has a 40GB (my old bigfoot 4.3GB was too slow and noisy) and then I have a 120GB USB external drive (using a laptop harddrive).

So yes, in short, I have more than 1 harddrive and I suggest everyone else should... :D
 
Best way is to get one small drive for OS and one large one for data/games. Makes it easier when you need to re-install your OS if something goes wrong.

Personally, I've got two 80gig drives in RAID0 with a 160Gig drive. Also have two 80Gig external and a 250Gig external.

Thinking of getting a 500Gig external as well. 500Gig drives are getting nice and cheap now. :)
 
i was thinking of getting 2 simply 4 keeping my operating system on 1 and my games and music on the other
 
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