I want to hook up 2 external 500GB hard drives to it for storage. Has anyone else done this and experianced any problems?
I am a photo and video editor and want to seperate the photo and video storage from the computer drive with the stuff actively being worked on.
silverearth1
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I do the same and have two external 300GB drives where I keep my movies on a nd the pics
I do not have any problems
harryniantic
Get an enclosure with multiple bays and install the drives in that. You can configure the drives as a RAID array to gain speed or extra backup. Firewire is a little faster than USB.
Warren D
Sounds workable to me. I would partition the drives as another responder suggested.
That is a lot of storage--I can't advise you how to best partition these drives, but you will probably want fairly large partitions for what you are using it for.
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making use of an exterior annoying stress is so trouble-free as plugging it in. inspite of the undeniable fact that, it provides the stress with a sparkling letter (like E:) rather then increasing the size of the C stress. so which you will could desire to make an effort to pass all your information archives (song, photos, vids, information) from the C stress to the hot exterior stress. this is a one time element which could take a pair hours. After that, you utilize the exterior stress as your frequent place to save archives. you additionally can deploy maximum classes to the exterior stress in case you prefer making use of their stepped forward or custom deploy. Plus you have the improve that because of the fact you proportion the workstation, you're taking the exterior stress bodily with you. You hook it up once you're making use of the computer, and lock it away once you're no longer. That way different individuals can burn up your stress area. including extra memory will make each little thing on your computer run swifter different than for one element - downloads. the value if your internet isn't desperate by making use of the value and memory on your computer, yet by making use of the value of your ISP. inspite of the undeniable fact that 512 of memory is low for working XP. i think of you will discover the investment to pass to a million gb of memory would be extra beneficial than properly rather worth the upward thrust in ability and velocity you will get from the hot memory.
Parth
I did get feedback from one of my friends that if do not partition the drives, data retreival time goes higher (if you have high amount of data).
There is no other problem per se.