Connecting multiple hard drives together
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There are many scenarios where you share one external hard drive among several computers, but not rare are the cases when you need to connect several hard drives together and use them on a single computer. More hard drives, for example, let you save data from being lost as you can back up the information on a second external or internal hard disk. Also, you could store more photos and music if you had additional storage devices connected to your PC.
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To install several hard drives on one machine, first, you should decide on the setup you want
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Basically, you have two options:
- Connect several external hard drives to your laptop or desktop computer;
- Install additional internal hard disk on the desktop PC.
When it comes to an external hard drive, it's enough to use a USB or Firewire connection, external hard drives are very simple to install.
As for an internal hard disk, you can set it up as a separate storage device or connect it using the RAID technology. This method requires a motherboard with RAID support and allows using several hard drives together. Also, hard disks can be configured to mirror one another to duplicate and back up data.
Here's how to install additional hard drive using the RAID utility:
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- Before you start, make sure your computer has space for the new installations. Also, it's recommended that you use identical hard drives that have the same amount of hard disk space and speed. To connect a new hard drive to the motherboard, use connector cables coming with the device.
- Once connected, start your computer. During start-up, there will be shown the keys that need to be pressed in order to launch the RAID program (e.g. 'F4').
- The utility will let you configure your hard drives into one of these hard-drive arrays:
RAID 0: With this configuration, you'll be able to split data between several hard drives. This set up is referred to as 'striping'. In this case, all hard drives can be accessed like it was one large hard drive.
RAID 1: With this configuration, one hard drive will mirror another one so that data can be copied and saved for backup purposes.
- After you've finished with the configurations, you should exit the RAID utility and reboot your computer.
- Once done, you can go to the directory and see the newly-installed hard-drive combination. All hard drives will appear as a single large internal hard drive. From that point forward you can copy data and install apps to that drive.
