Need
to Know Some Information about the Master
Drive & the Slave Drive?
"Hello,
have you ever read about the computer master drive and slave drive before? What
are they? Is there any difference between a master drive and a slave drive? If
I plan to add a second drive to my PC, need I set the second drive as the slave
drive? Thanks for any useful clue here! "
Hello, people are often asked to assign a
master drive and a slave drive out when there are two hard disks plunged on the
same PC. Why? In order to let the PC run perfectly and smoothly as before, the
PC needs know which one of them will be the primary drive that will be read or
written firstly while being used. Therefore, in this aspect, there is no such
obvious difference. But, if you really want to know more detailed information
about these two types of computer drives, you also can keep on reading this
article:
What
Is a PC Master Drive?
A PC master drive, also regarded as the
primary drive, is the main computer drive that often helps load operating
system, hold widely-used applications, tools and other important data.
Moreover, in most cases, people also set the master drive as the bootable
drive. So, in this way, the master drive often plays a dispensable role in
keeping the common performance of your PC.
What
Is a Computer Slave Drive?
A computer slave drive, in comparison with
the master drive, is the extra drive that is often attached to your PC for
extending the computer space and also help stores some information that is not
often used or not so important. Of course, if the primary drive is completely
full, you also can move or save something important to the slave drive. It’s
all your choices.
What
are the Differences between the Master
Drive & the Slave Drive?
Still need figure out what are the
differences between the master drive and slave drive? OK! Here are some really
small differences for you:
1).The master drive often can be read
firstly during booting.
Since the master drive is often set as the
bootable drive, it often will be detected firstly by PC while you are trying to
booting your PC.
2).The master drive often loads the PC
operating system.
In order to speed up the computer booting
and improve computer performance, the PC operating system often is loaded on
the master drive, not the slave drive.
3).The master drive often can be directly
connected to the motherboard of your PC.
When you do have used only one drive on
your PC, you often can easily plunge this drive to your motherboard straightly
there. However, if you do need to add a second drive for your PC, do not forget
to bought an IDE cable and connect the additional drive to your PC with the
help of this IDE cable. Also do not forget to point out which one is the master
drive and which one is the slave drive as soon as possible to avoid unexpected
troubles.
4).The main drive often will be listed
firstly in Disk Management.
The slave drive partitions are often listed
after the main drive partitions in Disk Management. For example, when you do
have divided your main disk into C, D and E, your slave partitions will be
shown after these three partitions and often will be automatically labeled as
F, G or the likes.
5).The main drive often is the commonly
used hard disk. However, the slave could be different.
In order to make the computer run
functionally, people often use the commonly-used hard disk as the master drive.
However, the slave drive often could be more choices. To enlarge the PC memory,
you can add the additional hard disk, CD and DVD, etc. In other words, the
slave drive could be a traditional hard disk, CD or DVD according to your own
needs.
Overall, in these ways, the master drive is
really different from the slave drive.
Conclusion:
See the differences clearly? Still want to
add a second hard disk to your computer? Hope you can remember the differences
well and set your master and slave drive well.
Related
PC Hard Disk Tips:
1).
Prepare two or three external hard disks to save computer important data
backups well
No matter why you have to know the
differences between the slave drive and the master drive, never forget to
prepare two or three external drives or storage devices to create important
drive data backups well before you do any changes to the computer drive with
much valuable data.
2).
Use computer hard disk file recovery software to take lost drive data back.
Unplug PC hard disk without turning PC off
at first? PC hard disk is not formatted and asks you to format at first? Or have formatted hard disk or delete hard disk files and folder unexpectedly? Use computer harddisk file recovery software to rescue the precious drive files, documents,
pictures, movies, messages, mails and others back as many as possible.
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