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Farmboy · Guest

Dear all,

Can anyone answer one or two questions (that the HP website doesn't)
as to whether the "dual hard drive" configuration on the Presario
notebooks allows the buyer to add that second drive later? How are
they connected? Is there a spare internal adapter slot not otherwise
taken up? Or is it a special port multiplier part added to one
internal slot, which I'd have to purchase separately? Or, would I be
displacing the optical drive? (In some "multibay" Compaqs, the last
scenario has been the case.)

If you have other advice, here's a follow-up: f you were buying a
Pavilion notebook, would you go with the dual hard drive setup? How
could you configure them for optimal performance? What goes on the
first drive alongside the OS? All the program files? And should they
be in a separate partition? Or should all program files and documents
be placed on the 2nd drive? In how many partitions? If you added a
second OS (say a Linux distro), would that necessarily go on the
second drive? Or on a different partition of the first drive? Or do
all these shenanigans add nothing, and would I be better off going
with a RAID setup across the two drives?

Sincerely,
Farmboy
(Middlebury, VT)