Thread: Can I utilize a backup hard drive for memory as well

Hi, If I were to form my second HDD in my PC as a backup drive for my first, could I too utilize it to save stand-alone documents? Commonly I have about 500GB of information on my 1TB system drive. I need to back that up onto my second drive. However, could I too utilize my second drive as say, a scratch drive whilst video editing, or to record footage from a display recorder similar to FRAPS onto? Or must it be exclusively for backup?

Depends what you mean through backup to be sincere. If you have 500GB of information on a 1TB system drive (C, and a 1TB backup drive, then you could set up few software to backup that information onto the backup drive, in the directory. That would leave 500GB place on drive E:, and then you could utilize E:\Fraps or E:\Temp as you wished, any folder. If you needed to create E: a direct mirror of C:, then obviously that would not function. Too, it is not actually a backup since fire, theft, electrical spike or PSU failure, SATA corruption from the mobo may wipe out together drives simultaneously.

Ok thank you, I meant the first choice, as a backup instead than a mirror. And yes that is fact. The primary performance is as a drive to record documents also utilizing Dxtory. But I figured I had likely just have a maximum of 500GB of information on it at any one time, so I may as good utilize the rest to "back up" my C: drive against pure HDD failure.

A hard drive is a hard drive, you can do whatever you need with it, insert information on it, leave it abandon, whatever.