Can you partition the drive into two 500gb drives prior to shipping?
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All of our units come preassembled and are in Amazon's warehouse right now. We do not have the ability to change or modify anything about the machines. Partitioning the drives, however, is a very easy task and takes less than 20 seconds. If you decide on getting our system, we will gladly assist you with how to partition your drive.
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Yes. I have had a computer had a 500GB plus a 1.5TB. And another with 2 SSDs which are relatively small volume and a 2TB HD. As long as you have the power and connectors you are free to add in as many of any size as you want.
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cloning process from 500 Gb to 2 Tb drive. From Western digital to Seagate drive (2tb).
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I will agree with the other two comments.. Just upgrade the drive to a larger size. Storage is pretty cheap these days. Good Luck!
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I believe so. I have cloned many drives to 500gb, 750gb and 1 terabyte drives using acronis software
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After Formatting it and the OS takes almost 11% of the formatted Drive... 806GB is Available of the 1TB ,which in my opinion it's still a lot, can't really say on the 500GB though
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I think you mean NTFS, and yes.. Go to computer management - Disk Management - then format the disk to your needs
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I am not sure of a 500GB as I don't have one that size to test, but I have used an old 40GB IDE WD drive and it worked fine.
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They are not separate partitions. My best advice is to keep a backup on a separate drive, such as an external hard drive.
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No but you can add a second drive in the DVD bay using a DVD caddy. I replaced the hard drive with a 128 gig Samsung 840 Pro SSD ($114.99) for use as the boot/system/program drive, and then mounted the 500 gig drive I removed in a Universal SATA Hard Drive Caddy ($13.65) and put this in the empty DVD bay for the data drive.
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Yes with three provisos. First what you are backing up must easily fit into two 3TB of space. Second, the Seagate could also crash and third, you need to use a back-up program which makes the Seagate a startup drive. I use Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper.
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It would have been helpful if you had described what you intend to do. Clone what, exactly, would be a good start. And do you have any extra hardware available, such as an unused HDD that could be used for temporary storage?
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Sure, you can use an external enclosure and use it as a backup drive. Just remember that it's a 2.5 inch drive (like in laptops), not a regular 3.5 inch (like in a pc).Cheers
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When I received mine, it was 1 drive, partitioned in 2. The "C" section is about 200G
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Each drive will always be a bit different, as no two drives will have the exactly the same free space. Mine is 931GB
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You can simply put a FAT32 partition on your drive and do it that way. You can do that in windows without downloading anything.
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Yes, but you may need to replace the hard drive cable to accommodate two drives.