Guest Justin Posted July 28, 2007 Posted July 28, 2007 Say I have 2 internal hard drives, 1 installed with windows xp and the other installed with a game. When playing the game will both hard drives be running? The reason why the game is installed on the other hard drive (not installed with win. xp) is because I don't want to slow the speed of my computer down). I'm just thinking about how much heat will come from running 2 hard drives at the same time for a long period, that is if both hard drives will be running, which brings me back to my above question. Thanks
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 28, 2007 Posted July 28, 2007 Re: Hard Drive Question "Justin" <Justin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A64512AD-3DF2-4D0E-BCB2-DA9A56877218@microsoft.com... > Say I have 2 internal hard drives, 1 installed with windows xp and the > other > installed with a game. When playing the game will both hard drives be > running? > > The reason why the game is installed on the other hard drive (not > installed > with win. xp) is because I don't want to slow the speed of my computer > down). > I'm just thinking about how much heat will come from running 2 hard drives > at > the same time for a long period, that is if both hard drives will be > running, > which brings me back to my above question. > > Thanks Unless your PC has some power saving scheme installed, both disks will run at all times.
Guest Daddio Posted July 28, 2007 Posted July 28, 2007 RE: Hard Drive Question Hard Drives are generally going create heat and run continuosly, but are not going to get so hot as to cause damage even though they reside one above the other in the slots. Within your computer casing if you have sufficient fans running that, will maintain the cooling process overall. "Justin" wrote: > Say I have 2 internal hard drives, 1 installed with windows xp and the other > installed with a game. When playing the game will both hard drives be > running? > > The reason why the game is installed on the other hard drive (not installed > with win. xp) is because I don't want to slow the speed of my computer down). > I'm just thinking about how much heat will come from running 2 hard drives at > the same time for a long period, that is if both hard drives will be running, > which brings me back to my above question. > > Thanks
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 28, 2007 Posted July 28, 2007 Re: Hard Drive Question On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:36:00 -0700, Justin <Justin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Say I have 2 internal hard drives, 1 installed with windows xp and the other > installed with a game. What do you by "installed with a game"? Is there an operating system on this drive? Does the game run under Windows XP? Does it have its own built-in operating system? What's the name of the game? > When playing the game will both hard drives be > running? If there are two drives installed both will run when you power on, regardless of what is on them. > The reason why the game is installed on the other hard drive (not installed > with win. xp) is because I don't want to slow the speed of my computer down). I don't understand that statement. Answer the questions above, please. > I'm just thinking about how much heat will come from running 2 hard drives at > the same time for a long period, that is if both hard drives will be running, > which brings me back to my above question. > > Thanks -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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