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Is it faster to have two smaller hard drives or one big one?

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Mar 15, 202615169 views
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Assuming that the drives all have the same RPM and overall same specs except for storage space, would it be faster to install two hard drives together or just one larger one in a computer?

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Yes. Two drives are faster. As someone already said, you can use RAID 0. This will give you almost double the speed for anything larger than a small file, where small depend on how your raid is formatted. This makes both drives appear as one large, …

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