dual disks in a pc

Irish_Nomad

Hi,

I just got a new pc which contains 2 hard disks. I'm wondering whether it is better to select categories of files to place on the same disk such as all video/photo files, place applications on one and data on the other, just randomly allocate files across the 2 disks to keep disk usage balanced or use some other allocation method, Is there a best practice for how to manage this ?

Biggins

If I may, I'd suggest that you use the second disk JUST for your own data such as documents, backed-up saves, music etc.

That way IF you get a virus and/or something fails, you can do a operating system restore without having to move/copy/lose much personal vital stuff just from your "C" drive.
It will further help your stuff from any infections etc that might slip into the operating system.

Capt'n Midnight

have the swap file on a different disk to data

copy vital data to both drives

you can backup the system files to the second drive


do not be tempted to link both drives in RAID 0
yes it's faster in some cases but the name comes from the number of files that can be recovered if either drive dies.

Irish_Nomad

Thanks for the replies lads.

bonzodog2

The name actually comes from Redundant Array of Indepenent Disks