Hard Drive Question

[Guest]

Say I have 2 internal hard drives, 1 installed with windows xp and the other
installed with a game. When playing the game will both hard drives be
running?

The reason why the game is installed on the other hard drive (not installed
with win. xp) is because I don't want to slow the speed of my computer down).
I'm just thinking about how much heat will come from running 2 hard drives at
the same time for a long period, that is if both hard drives will be running,
which brings me back to my above question.

Thanks

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Say I have 2 internal hard drives, 1 installed with windows xp and the
other
installed with a game. When playing the game will both hard drives be
running?

The reason why the game is installed on the other hard drive (not
installed
with win. xp) is because I don't want to slow the speed of my computer
down).
I'm just thinking about how much heat will come from running 2 hard drives
at
the same time for a long period, that is if both hard drives will be
running,
which brings me back to my above question.

Thanks

Unless your PC has some power saving scheme installed, both
disks will run at all times.

 

[Guest]

Hard Drives are generally going create heat and run continuosly, but are not
going to get so hot as to cause damage even though they reside one above the
other in the slots. Within your computer casing if you have sufficient fans
running that, will maintain the cooling process overall.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Say I have 2 internal hard drives, 1 installed with windows xp and the other
installed with a game.

What do you by "installed with a game"? Is there an operating system
on this drive? Does the game run under Windows XP? Does it have its
own built-in operating system? What's the name of the game?

When playing the game will both hard drives be
running?

If there are two drives installed both will run when you power on,
regardless of what is on them.

The reason why the game is installed on the other hard drive (not installed
with win. xp) is because I don't want to slow the speed of my computer down).

I don't understand that statement. Answer the questions above, please.