I have a new computer with two hard drives (dual core). I divided everything I have on my PC between the two hard drives: my documents and programs on the first hard drive, my photos, videos and music on the other.
I did this thinking that my computer would be faster that way, because both hard disks should work, but with less information on them, instead of making 1 work, with a lot of information on it. However, I was wondering if this is true. it is better to fill 1 hard disk first, or fill 2 evenly, with the aim of making your PC faster. And is the type of information you have on a hard drive also important? (I open my documents and programs more often than the videos and photos)?
Thank you very much for your reply.
Answer
Dear Filippo,
First of all, a correction: dual-core has nothing to do with hard drives.
Dual-core means that there are 2 cores in your processor (CPU) and that it can therefore perform two tasks at the same time.
As for your 2 hard drives: it makes no sense to divide your data nicely over the 2 drives, as long as you place complete files on one drive you can’t get any speed gains.
If you cut files (for example a photo) into pieces and divide them between the two disks, you can gain speed because then the information can be obtained from the 2 disks at the same time.
To do this, you must choose RAID 0 when installing your computer, this automatically distributes all data over both drives. However, RAID 0 has one major drawback: if one of the disks fails, you will also lose the data from the other disk.
One last note: a disk that is almost full or one that is only half full: this makes no difference in terms of speed.
Sincerely,
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