Hard Drives

[robgood]

I have a spare hard drive and not being an expert would like to know what would be the best way to use it.

 

Just keep it as a spare?

Install 2 hard drives?

 

Your expert advice would be welcome.

 

Rob

[Match]

The "easiest" way would probably be to install it in your case as a second internal hard drive but this depends on if you have space in your case.

 

your next best option would be to buy a external enclosure and plug it into your PC using a USB Drive

 

Personally I prefer to have two separate drives in any machine I build for myself so that I can keep a backup image of any important files on both drives, so should one fail, the data is safe on the other, also should my Primary C drive with the OS on it become Infected with a Virus or the OS registry get corrupted I can have everything back to how it was last week in 20mins.

 

But for better advice we would need to know if they are SATA or IDE, the size of the installed one you have and the size of the "Spare" one you are looking at, and what case you have.