you will have a working drive should the other fail. With proper backups, it's fairly simple to make the d: drive a c: drive until the other is replaced.
There is also a throughput advantage to two drives. Rather than have the heads looking for data and using Windows resources at the same time, you can see an improved seek time using two drive. This is especially true with multi-media operations.
and life goes on...
Jack
Other than the obvious storage advantage, is it better to have 2 hard drives internal rather than just 1 hard drive with 2 partitions? I can either do 2 internal and 1 external or 1 internal and 2 external. I would personally rather have a 2nd external one, but if someone can give me a reason to have 2 internal hard drives I will consider it. The internals would be 1 250gb SATA (which I will partition into 2 parts) and 1 120gb IDE. So if I go for the single drive solution it would just be the 250gb SATA. Thanks!

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