How do I know if a hard drive will fit my pc?

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Urkson May 11, 2014 @ 1:33pm

Cant find answer on internet and there are probably many geeks here so please help

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Marble May 11, 2014 @ 1:35pm

HDD's are roughly all the same size and designed to fit in the same way. If you have an empty space for an HDD in your case, then it will fit.

Urkson May 11, 2014 @ 1:37pm

How can I know if I have an empty space for an hdd case? I thought you removed the old HD and put the new in its place

Marble May 11, 2014 @ 1:39pm

That would depend entirely on how many HDD bays are free.

If you are talking about a laptop, then yes you would need to remove the old one because they very rarely have more than one HDD.

Urkson May 11, 2014 @ 1:42pm

Originally posted by L-r | Canti:
That would depend entirely on how many HDD bays are free.

If you are talking about a laptop, then yes you would need to remove the old one because they very rarely have more than one HDD.

How do I know if I have free HDD bays? And if i have several HDDs will they all share the information stored on them? Like if i have 2 HDDs with 300gbs will my pc say: you have 600gb?

And I have desktop

Urkson May 11, 2014 @ 1:47pm

Originally posted by HEAVY METAL ZOMBIE:
Internal hard drives or External hard drives ?

Internal for a desktop

Marble May 11, 2014 @ 1:50pm

Originally posted by URKSEN LEL ♥♥♥:
How do I know if I have free HDD bays?

Look inside.

Originally posted by URKSEN LEL ♥♥♥:
And if i have several HDDs will they all share the information stored on them? Like if i have 2 HDDs with 300gbs will my pc say: you have 600gb?

Your OS will see two disks, both 300GB.

It will only see a single 600GB disk if you have a RAID controller configured to stripe the two 300GB disks.

Urkson May 12, 2014 @ 2:19am

Why does some hdds cost more than others even tho they are the same size and have the same amount of storage

Donitsi May 12, 2014 @ 2:28am

Originally posted by URKSEN LEL ♥♥♥:
Why does some hdds cost more than others even tho they are the same size and have the same amount of storage

Hard for me to say. Speed, won't break down easily, unique features, greed? :P

Urkson May 12, 2014 @ 2:29am

Originally posted by Tulipunahapero:
Originally posted by URKSEN LEL ♥♥♥:
Why does some hdds cost more than others even tho they are the same size and have the same amount of storage

Hard for me to say. Speed, won't break down easily, unique features, greed? :P

Greed? They are sold in the same shop -_-

Urkson May 12, 2014 @ 2:30am

And if someone knows, whats the difference of replacing and adding an extra HDD? Whats best? Shouldnt adding be best because you get extra storage or what?

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Marble May 12, 2014 @ 2:44am

The setup that I prefer is to have a fast but small disk for my OS and apps (128GB SSD or similar) and a 500GB-1TB~ HDD for storing files and installing games.

This way, Windows boots super fast, is very responsive and all my applications open instantly, but I still have slower storage for junk (videos, games, photos etc.)

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Urkson May 12, 2014 @ 2:47am

Originally posted by L-r | Canti:
The setup that I prefer is to have a fast but small disk for my OS and apps (128GB SSD or similar) and a 500GB-1TB~ HDD for storing files and installing games.

This way, Windows boots super fast, is very responsive and all my applications open instantly, but I still have slower storage for junk (videos, games, photos etc.)

And how does this work? Do I simply have to open another folder when launching games stored on the other HDD?

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