HDD question

[Xx_jet_xX]

Mouse has the best, and correct idea, use the small drive for programs and os and large drive for personal stuff. the personal stuff fills more hd space backing up and doing routine maintanance on a smaller drive is much faster. also another good this is most viruses wont start on a secondary drive at a restart.

[Steve]

^ i think the best idea would be to bin the 40gb cause it's probably quite old
40gb is way too small unless you don't play any games released in the last few years.

[katana*GFR*]

RAID 10 for me, just ordered 4 200GB's
Speed of the double writing will be reduced by the 2 HD's beeing written at at the same time.. 1 drive fails? Got a backup then. Might be a little over the top tho..

[Chrispy]

Just one more question BTW.

Okay, this is just a "what if/example" question. I've got DRIVE C here, and the new drive that's a whole lot bigger is DRIVE E. Now, if I were to have both drives installed into the PC, and I completely ghosted DRIVE C to DRIVE E, and I turned off the PC and removed DRIVE C, would DRIVE E automatically become the new DRIVE C? If not, how would I assign the bigger HDD to C?

Just curious. Not thinking about doing anything with HDDs yet... in a long time...

Chris

[Steve]

it will boot to it no probs and windows would rename it drive C

[Chrispy]

Originally posted by Steve
it will boot to it no probs and windows would rename it drive C

Ah awesome lol.

'Cause I was wondering if I had ghosted DRIVE C to the new drive, and XP automatically made it a drive other than C, then the whole registry woulda been screwed lol (since you'd have thousands of DRIVE C entries)...

Thanks Stevie.

Chris

[SilentTrigger]

Isn't ghost really picky about hardware?

[Steve]

in what way?
used it in every type of machine i know without any probs (unless im tryign to image from USB stick, then i have probs with usb drivers).

[Hellfighter]

don't know if you can move windows over to another drive without getting error from the drive it was install onto. then remove the drive it was install into. window will most likely rename the drive to C but your OS may not work reason it was not install into the newer drive but the old one.

i found in the pass its better restall Windows into the new Hard drive then have the old drive added in to the tower tobe formated after it been restall.

keep in mind Microsoft is a bet funny you should call them up let them know you going to restall it into a newer HHD if you using a Keycode for it.

My is OEM virsion i call them up all the time when i had to do that. so they know it not being share with other anti-pirate thing

[SilentTrigger]

Originally posted by Steve
in what way?
used it in every type of machine i know without any probs (unless im tryign to image from USB stick, then i have probs with usb drivers).

Just something I heared

I heared that if you ghost a drive and then if you don't replace it with the exact same setup it will fail? I'm happy if that hear say is false

[Jckl]

you can copy windows to a new hdd using GHOST.. It creates a image of the partition. This image can then be moved to the new drive. It is always better for a clean install but ghosting your old hdd will work fine. I have never had hardware issues with it either.

[SilentTrigger]

Sounds awsome! Thanks Jckl!

[Steve]

JBOD!

JBOD isn't really RAID at all, but I discuss it here since it is sort of a "third cousin" of RAID... JBOD can be thought of as the opposite of partitioning: while partitioning chops single drives up into smaller logical volumes, JBOD combines drives into larger logical volumes. It provides no fault tolerance, nor does it provide any improvements in performance compared to the independent use of its constituent drives.

(just a bunch of disks)