Why two hard dives

[Admiral]

I have a Packard Bell with 2 hard drives 1x HDD (c)
the other is                                             1x Data(D).

When do I use the one marked Data  (D)

And why have two .                                 

[Spero-T]

One could be a partion drive

With hard drive capacities growing so large [now 1-TeraByte], intelligent partitioning has become an issue.

HARD DRIVES are like houses, because each house (hard drive) has its own rooms (partitons). Houses come in different sizes, and may contain any number of rooms (partitions). They can also be expensive, and some are built better than others.

Adding a second hard drive to your system is like buying a vacation home at the shore or the lake. It could be used to store all your digital Media, such as your MP3 collection, your lossless audio files, or photographs.

• PARTITIONS are like rooms in a house, because they separate different parts of a house into distinct areas for different purposes. For example, the kitchen for cooking, bedroom for sleeping, gaming room for playing Counterstrike. Likewise, you can create a partition for all your Games, and another to store your Back-ups, etc.

[street1 (RIP)]

One could be a partion drive

With hard drive capacities growing so large [now 1-TeraByte], intelligent partitioning has become an issue.

HARD DRIVES are like houses, because each house (hard drive) has its own rooms (partitons). Houses come in different sizes, and may contain any number of rooms (partitions). They can also be expensive, and some are built better than others.

Adding a second hard drive to your system is like buying a vacation home at the shore or the lake. It could be used to store all your digital Media, such as your MP3 collection, your lossless audio files, or photographs.

• PARTITIONS are like rooms in a house, because they separate different parts of a house into distinct areas for different purposes. For example, the kitchen for cooking, bedroom for sleeping, gaming room for playing Counterstrike. Likewise, you can create a partition for all your Games, and another to store your Back-ups, etc.

Hey,Spero-T....Real good discription. I like that.

[Spero-T]

Thanks !

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Very creative, Spero.

Another thing I think I'll go ahead and mention:
As some of you might know, if you're copying something from C:\ to another directory in C:\, the copying could be done in about 5 minutes (depending on file size) but if you're copying a file from C:\ to C:\ and at the same time, a file from D:\ into D;\, the time for copying will be like 20 minutes because it's like being in two rooms in once

[CBMatt]

Very creative, Spero.

Not to be a killjoy or anything, but I believe all credit goes to Radified...
http://partition.radified.com

[Richenstony]

Not to be a killjoy or anything, but I believe all credit goes to Radified...
http://partition.radified.com

 

[Admiral]

Many thanx to all who answered my Post:

"Why two hard drives."

All of your replies were informative & very helpfull

Especialy to me as  I am still going through the learning curve

  Admiral   

[Spero-T]

No swet...

But you cant thank me... I did nothing....

it was all Radified..... 

[elxr06]

Yup, to me, windows exists on one drive, and other stuff exist on second drive (maybe backup).

So... drive 1 is where I live, and drive 2 is my summer vacation house.

[johnvarles]

elxr06 mentioned having windows on one hard drive and everything else on a second, is this a better way to use two hard drives? As opposed to having windows and all your programs and media on the same hard drive. Would you keep all your media and drivers on the second drive?

[Dusty]

I have a Packard Bell with 2 hard drives 1x HDD (c)
the other is                                             1x Data(D).

When do I use the one marked Data  (D)

And why have two .                                 

There's nothing here to say that C: and D: are different physical hard drives, they may just be partitions on the same hard drive.   Like all electronic/mechanical devices a hard drive can fail at any time and if you only have one hard drive, even if there are two partitions, you lose the lot, operating system, programs and data, none of which might be recoverable..

With two physical hard drives, one (generally the slave) can be used for backup by either using cloning software or simply copying.  Regardless of which media type you decide to use for backup the backup should be updated regularly.

The operating system and programs can always be re-installed but data files created over a period are extremely difficult to rebuild.

Good luck on your learning curve Admiral

 

[Dusty]

elxr06 mentioned having windows on one hard drive and everything else on a second, is this a better way to use two hard drives? As opposed to having windows and all your programs and media on the same hard drive. Would you keep all your media and drivers on the second drive?

Hello johnvarles - welcome to the CH forums.

My preference is to keep the operating system and programs in one partition (C:) on one physical hard drive, data files etc on a second partition (D:) on the same physical drive.   Backup is a second physical hard drive which is a duplicate of the first (partitions E: and F:).   Other long-term backup is burned to cd's.

Good luck.