1 vs 2 hdd

[Gitesh]

I want to have storage of 2tb on my new rig which setup is best with speed and reliable?

1x 2tb drive or 2x 1tb drive in bost speed and reliably.

[bleedblue]

Get a single 2tb drive, it'll be cheaper.

[Gitesh]

5 minutes ago, bleedblue said:

Get a single 2tb drive, it'll be cheaper.

It doesn't matter if its cheaper for some 10$ i need speed with reliably.

[homeap5]

Speed will be the same, unless you made Raid0.

1TB is not so much space. 2TB will be better in single drive, so you can add later more drives.

Personally I have 4 HDD and 2 SSD in my computer. I add new drive if I need more storage. It's better than copy everything every time you need more space. HDD takes less than 10 W (mostly 5 W or something like that) so don't worry about power consumption. PC Case is your only limit (and motherboard, unless you buy another SATA controller).

2TB is better because if you have lot of data, moving them across folders is much faster than moving folders between drives.

 

Want to speed up loading games and don't want SSD? Made 2 partitions - 500GB and 1,5TB on your 2TB drive. First 500GB partition will be faster.

[DimasRMDO]

Having two 1TB HDDs can mean you don't lose everything let's say 1 HDD fails since some of your files are in the second drive.

Though having a single 2TB HDD saves more space (in your case, and your motherboard's SATA port) and cheaper.

[asus killer]

definitely go for two.

 

you can back up your most important files. And you can share the workload among them, i mean if you are doing two different tasks on a single HDD it will be slower than having one program or game or whatever on one HDD and another thing running on the 2nd HDD at the same time. It makes all the difference in the world

[AdroG23]

if you want speed then get a 1tb hdd for the bulk data and a ssd 500gb or so for programs and games. There's all the speed you need (something like Samsung 850 evo)