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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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David L Holiman wrote
On 7 Apr 2004 16:15:49 -0700, (vbprogwb) wrote this : 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 Should this be ok to do (use both of them)? I've never heard of a problem with running two different RPM rated drives. You should be OK, but your mileage my vary. Good luck. David L. Holiman I've never heard of problems either with two different RPM drives either (unless, of course, you plan on doing RAID 0). S'matter of fact, I had an old laptop drive in my desktop (using a 2.5 - 3.5 converter) as a backup for several months with no problems. Took it out and put it inside an external case, eventually, though, to extend its life (it only spins up when I connect it via USB to do backups, vs spinning up every time the desktop is booted up). You can probably find an external USB case for your old HD, too. |
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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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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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