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cottontails2
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no c drive is always going to be the drive that has your os on it it would be f drive or something 

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I have a 250GB solid state drive and a 320GB laptop hard drive and i would like to use them both as the main local "C" drive, or is it possible to have 2 "C" drives?

Im assume your trying to say like have the C drive be like the 250+320 to make one drive, don't work dat way you got to have them separate so it will be 250 SSD "C" Drive then 320 will be a Different letter "X" or anything 

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You can have as many local drives as your motherboard has sata or ide ports for, but they will have different drive letters C:. D:, E:, etc etc etc

 

So can you put the extra laptop drive in your system ? YES (it will show up as drive D: or some other letter)

 

Can you make it appear as one drive 'combined' with the current C: drive like a RAID configuration ? NO

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well you can technically raid(raid 0) them but the capacity will be 500gb total and the speed will only be about twice as fast as the mechanical hard drive. (also seek times will be the same as having a mechanical drive as it still as to wait for the hdd to catch up in all scenarios)

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So it would probably work better, if i just bought another 250+SSD and then try to do a RAID!?

Or you could just have 2 disks? Why would you need only one?

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Sure create a JOBD array. I dont know why you would want to do that though.

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