How Do 2 Hard Drives Work on 1 Computer?

Video Transcript

"Man are you sure about this? I don't know, oh hi, today we are going to show you how two hard drives work in one computer. You can do that? How do two hard drives work on one computer, well it's quite complicated and it's through the virtual assignments of a slave and master hierarchy in the bios. Now look it's not quite that easy, but it's not quite that complicated either. Now a hard drive is something that you hardly ever actually see because it's inside the case of your computer. Normally they're somewhere right in here. But of course that leaves lots of space leftover so as long as there is space, you can continue to add other hard drives. Now as long also as the cable that connects to the mother board has more then one connector, you can have more hard drives. Each hard drive also has an address. One is usually called the master, because it has the system software and it is usually at the address of zero. The second hard drive or the third or the fourth are usually called the slaves. A secondary way that a computer can have two hard drives is to have an external hard drive. An external hard drive is really nothing more then a hard drive inside a case. The external hard drive then has to be connected normally to the back of your computer through USB or fiware which is a lot faster. So my friends yes a computer can have more then one hard drive, it's up to you to decide whether it's internal or external. But if you really want to figure out how to do it, hey don't forget, read the flippin manual."