I wish to get a New hardrive, a 500GB one, which can be used as a secondary file storer for my work, where as the Primary existing one can be used for my Windows operating system. question- but when using 2 hardrives it takes time to open files form hardrive 2, from hardrive 1 windows installation (as the files have to trasnfer from HD1 to HD1), as i have done it before. How can that file transfer process be speeded up? what computer actions can be taken? or new devices bought? does it depend on memory ?
You don't need the files to be transferred from HD2 to HD1 for opening. They are dumped in RAM from where OS access them. Check in power options if HDD is set to turn off after certain time. That may slow down things. Check the wiring of the HDD. If the rpm speed of the drive is slow then you may get slower access.
The files open from the storage drive, and load pretty fast depending on the speed of the drive. If you're opening large graphics you may want to increase your RAM.
The best is to indeed consider increaseing your ram for larger files, otherwise, no worries it will be fine
As other have suggested, no need to copy from drive 2 to drive 1. If you want to increase performance, buy a couple of the same hard drive and raid 1 them.
What do you mean by RAID 1 them ? What do you mean by RAID 1 them ?- how do i do that? - I will get the following drives below.... (im thinking of buying 2 seagate drives, 1 small 80Gb seagate cheeta (where the Windows Xp media centre will be installed) and hardrive2 a 400Gb one for all my file storage
RAID1 – (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or disk mirroring) A technique in which data is simultaneously written to two hard drive for redundancy. If one of the drives fails the other will continue to function keeping the network operational. I don't know how to do it though
Hi There I dont think you will benefit from RAID 1 as this is disk mirroring ie whats on the first drive is replicated to the 2nd. It is used for fault tolerance and NOT performance - it takes MORE processing power to write to 2 drives at the same time. Also you will only ever have the space of the 1st drive. If you want performance from RAID then go RAID 0, disk striping but as you want the 2nd drive for storage then I dont think this is a good otion either unless you stripe hard drive 1 and 2 and backup to a 3rd. Personally I would just buy as big an HDD as you can and dump all your important stuff on it. And as other has have said - more RAM. Regards