That’s the computer that I’m plotting to buy this year. There is an option to place up to 3 hard drives into the computer. Now I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 with 2 hard drives named OS(C:) and Recovery(D:). Whenever I want to restore my computer to factory settings, all other data is discarded except for the data stored on Recovery(D:). I wanted to know, if I chose to have 2 hard drives place into my new computer, would they behave like the 2 aforementioned hard drives that I have in my Inspiron 1520?
My second question is about raid 0. If you look at the options offered in the link above, any computer with 2 hard drives or more can be setup in a raid 0 configuration. I don’t know it fully so I want to exactly what that means. I would also like to know if it would make the 2 hard drives would act as one or would they still act as 2 separate hard drives.
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Answer by Bassman1
The Dell Inspirion 1520 has just one hard drive and the hard drive is partitioned into Dive c and drive D partition the drive C contains the operating system, all programs and files. The hard drives D partition contains the image file of the original operating system and is used for recovery of the original operating system in case of a problem it lets you reinstall the operating system onto the main C drive partition but one should always make a set of recovery disc or hold a set from Dell for back up in case the recovery drive D partition can not be accessed.
Some models of laptop can be ordered with or configured with two internal hard drives, the first hard drive contains the drive C and D partitions and the second hard drive is for storage space of files.
You do not want to set up or use a Raid 0 hard drive configuration as it will write over the recovery partition on hard drive one of the laptop set up with two hard drives.
Type raid o & 1 hard drive configuration into search and read the articles for more info.
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