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Too many hard drives??

donnthom

donnthom

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I have 4 HDDs which are partitioned resulting in 12 HDDs. They are not all used and I really don't need that much storage. My Primary disk is SSD. Am I slowing up my computer by having so many hard drives???
 
As long as you're accessing data from the primary drive(SSD), you should be fine and would not experience any slow downs. Except when you're trying to access data from the partitions and they are not regularly defragged. I don't see why would you need 12 partitions, 3-4 would do just fine for a home PC.
 
It just seems silly to have your HHD's whacked up into little HHD's, even if you aren't using them... I would think there would be a slight inefficiency based on where the HDD is writing the data on the disk.

You are certainly using a little more power to run all that stuff.
 
How many OSes? If only 1, there is no good reason to have more than one partition/drive (except for a Vista/7 HDD, but that is automatic).
 
Having too many drives (too many small drives when you could have less with larger drives) or drive letters (partitions etc.) really sucks....best to avoid it unless it really makes sense.
 
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