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Old April 8th 04, 12:15 AM
vbprogwb
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Default Installing 2 hard drives with different rpm's

Hi, All!

When I built my PC last year, I installed a
Western Digital, 120Gb, 7200 RPM, 8MB buffer hard drive

I have an old
Western Digital Caviar 33200 (3 gig?)

That I am thinking about installing for backup purposes only.

But, it seems like I heard that I could run into problems with the two
drives running at different rpm's.....

Should this be ok to do (use both of them)?

Thanks!

Thanks,

Bob
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Old April 8th 04, 07:57 PM
Brian
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i hate to sound like everyone else, but there really shouldn't be a
problem between running the two...

the only thing that would really come to mind is if for some reason
the faster RPM hard-drive was trying to send data to the slower one
faster then the slower one can recieve it...

but thats only a theoretical kind of situation, i think there
shouldn't be any problem

worse comes to worse i wouldn't think it would mess up your faster RPM
hard-drive so its worth a shot
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Old April 9th 04, 05:30 AM
arvind
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Well I'm running an identical sys with 2 HDD,the master is 7200 rpms
and the slave is 5400 rpms. But I've noticed that whenever both are
connected they tend to get extemely hot within 2 hours approx.
So I only connect the second to take backups.
 




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