I Simmo I Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 Hey I'm planning on building a dual-booting Hackintosh in about 5 weeks time and I was just wondering if partitioning a 1TB HDD or having 2 500GB HDDs would be better? I have heard from some people that using one HDD and dual-booting slowly kills your HDD, is that true? And also, should the 2 500GBs be in RAID? I know nothing about RAID so that might be a really stupid question, but I would still like an answer . Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluescreens Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 If you want to dual boot then by far the easiest way is two distinct hard drives (no raid) - 1 gets Windows on it, 1 gets MacOS. Far easier than any alternatives, and with 500GB drives being $50 these days it's a nonissue anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdb424 Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 If you have room in the case, 2 500's are better. Less fail rate, faster usually too with less data to look for in 1 drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 I'd get two drives, ittl be faster and better, and you dont need to set up raid. if your going to dualboot the best way is one harddrive formated for the one os and one for the other and a bootlader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehnick Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 I would get the 1TB drive. Later on when you want to upgrade for more storage, powering 3 or 4 hard drives (and fitting them in a case) isn't the ideal situation as opposed to just adding another 1TB (or bigger). It's more future proof to go with the biggest single size you can get for the money. Takes up less space. Consumes less power. Less noisy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Simmo I Posted September 29, 2008 Author Share Posted September 29, 2008 Hmm.. I just thought up another issue. I would want my music and videos to be on both my Mac and my Windows, so if I bought 2 separate HDDs I would need to have 2 copies of all of it... or a third HDD... any other options? If I go with a 1TB HDD this problem can be solved easily, just make a third partition that is useable by both Windows and Mac... Slightly leaning towards the 1TB right now just because of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadeo Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Defenitly 2 drives. I used this on my old desktop rig. One was for windows, one for mac. so at boot i pressed f12 (bios boot selection) and selected, wich one i would like to start. Absolutly easy and no problems with bootloaders, i.e. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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