If you use ghost and don't have a good external back up source I would
suggest making an image of the drive with the OS and program styles
and store that on a backup partition on the other HD, or better would
be a DVD or some external source. Your best bet for your personal data
would be some other form of back up as was mentioned earlier.
With the two drives I would put the OS and program files on the one
drive and leave the other for all the personal data files.
Dustin Williams
On 9/28/07, Phillip Batson <pbatson68@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Best way to utilize them? What are you using them for? Do you regularly back up your data?
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> If you want the fastest speed, go raid 0. But there is no redundancy, so if one drive fails, you lose everything on those drives.
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> You can go raid 1, which is mirroring. This is all about keeping your data safe. If one drive fails, you can run off the other drive until you get the other replaced. No loss of data at all, but it isn't the fastest. Best if you don't have a backup solution and still want some security in keeping your data.
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> If you are doing backups of your data, then you can certainly use both drives as separate devices. I'd suggest you put your os on one and your data on the other like you have outlined. If you lose your os drive, you'll have to reinstall all your apps again anyway.
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> If you get a application like Ghost, it can create an image of your drive for you. Basically it takes a copy of your hard drive at that point in time and can put them right on a cd/dvd. If your drive dies and you replace it, you can just push that image on to the new drive and you are up and running without all the reinstalls. But if you don't keep up, then obviously when you restore you may still be missing some stuff.
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> Hope that helps! Let me know if I can be of any assistance!
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> Phil
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jamie Calder <jcalder3@cfl.rr.com>
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:46:58 PM
> Subject: DML: OT: Dual Hard Drives...again
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> OK. So now I have 2 hard drives to play with. What's the best way to
> utilize them. From the previous discussion I know having the swap file and
> data files separate is a good idea. How about the other stuff
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> Drive 1: OS, installed programs (Program Files folder)
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> Drive 2: Data (Is this the entire Documents and Settings folder?), swap file
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> Does this sound right or is there a better way?
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> Thanks again!
> James
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