What Are the Benefits of Dual Computer Hard Drives?
"Upgrade and expand" is the name of the game when it comes to technology, and computer systems are no different. Computer hardware advances in power and broadens in scope in what seems like weekly intervals. This constant state of evolving places a steep learning curve on any would-be home computer updater. However, hard drive upgrades have stood the test of time in terms of their scope and usefulness.
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Benefits
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Adding a second hard drive to any computer system allows for many substantial performance benefits. For instance, placing your virtual memory on a secondary drive increases performance as the drive running your operating system does not have to constantly be checking virtual memory and loading OS files, thus spreading the load across two mediums with independent response times.
Size
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Adding a second drive increases the maximum amount of media, such as music or movies, that can be permanently stored on your system. Also, the number of programs that can be installed may be increased, along with any work produced on those programs.
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Features
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Having a second hard drive allows for more than one operating system to be installed efficiently to allow for a more robust working environment and a way to still boot your computer if one of your drives should fail.
Potential
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Utilizing a RAID configuration, a user can combine two separate drives together and have the operating system see the two drives as one, thus allowing almost doubled data bandwidth and redundancy in case of a drive failure (see Resources).
Considerations
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With the growing popularity of external hard drives, adding a second drive--which can be easily taken anywhere by just unplugging a USB cable--has become easier than ever, and requires less than a minute of initial setup time.
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