https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/why-a-2nd-hd/m-p/2900519#M3395 It would only be safer if the same information were on both drives. If you had one drive for the OS and one for the files, if you upgraded your machine, you user files could be easily moved. This is how servers are setup; they have one drive with the OS. The other drives are in a RAID configuration and the drives are much larger. In a typical PC, you don???t need a second drive, unless you wanted more storage and you didn???t want to move everything from the old drive to the new. Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:20:31 GMT Lance Brown 2003-02-10T07:20:31Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/why-a-2nd-hd/m-p/2900518#M3394 I have a Presario 70G mem, w/AMD Athlon 1.30GHz. Why have another Hd? I know people that say they use for safer storage. Sorry I'm new at this. Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:10:02 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/why-a-2nd-hd/m-p/2900518#M3394 marshall cromer 2003-02-10T04:10:02Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/why-a-2nd-hd/m-p/2900519#M3395 It would only be safer if the same information were on both drives. If you had one drive for the OS and one for the files, if you upgraded your machine, you user files could be easily moved. This is how servers are setup; they have one drive with the OS. The other drives are in a RAID configuration and the drives are much larger. In a typical PC, you don???t need a second drive, unless you wanted more storage and you didn???t want to move everything from the old drive to the new. Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:20:31 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/why-a-2nd-hd/m-p/2900519#M3395 Lance Brown 2003-02-10T07:20:31Z