For most PC owners, we may find that many of them are not content with having just one hard disk on their CPU. Normally, you can have as much as 4 of them but this depends on your setup. For example, if you make use of an optical storage device such as a CD writer, DVD writer or both, than you are down to two potential hard disk IDE drives. So normally you may want to stick to the standard number of 2 drives at the most.
Having two drives may cause conflicts if you are not careful. In fact some even have the trouble of finding their hard drives not being detectable. In most cases this happens if you fail to assign a master and a slave drive. To do this, you just have to place the default jumpers normally located near the power source options to be able to assign them as a master and slave drive. For people who are not familiar in doing this, it would be wise to seek the assistance of technicians since you may end up scratching your head to find the right combination.
Going back, there will normally be one master drive which will store your operating system. Slave drives are normally add-ons for further storage. While it seems that large storage drives these days are more than enough, you never know which files you would want to keep on your computer and which to backup on a CDR or DVD. Just the same, if you have storage to spare, then why not?
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