Hi, can this thing run operating system #1 on hard drive #1, and run operating system #2 on hard drive #2, at the very same time? Or is this thing meant to run just one operating system at one time? Thanks.
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I don't understand your question. I'm not sure how you would run two operating systems at the same time. I suppose you could set up the motherboard to allow for dual boot. The bottom line is, if you have a particular drive powered on (front button pushed in) then your motherboard treats the drive like it would if you weren't using this push button device. Don't over think its purpose. It either connects power to the drive or removes it.
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Using a 2nd physical drive gives you better options for performance and for recovery. For example, you could have OS and applications on one drive, and data on the other. This improves performance because you're splitting the workload across the multiple drives. This is not the same as using two or more partitions in the same physical drive; that's just for organization, or to overcome limitations of some older operating systems that couldn't handle larger drives. For recovery, you can use one physical drive to backup the other. If you lose one of the drives, you still have your backup. Doesn't work that way with two partitions on the same physical drive. If you lose the drive, you lose both partitions, so there's no real recovery option there.
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Got a bad news for you sir. You can run dual OS in one computer but you have to have your window xp and window 7 disc. You first need to install window xp and in the partition section, make it half of you hdd(non partition part not included). Then run window 7 and partition the remaining space ledt on your hdd. You can you a virual machine to run XP stuff but virual machine is VERY low and it depends on if you CPU, RAM and HDD can handle it or not
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Yes. It will allow a single drive. When you add the second one, hopefully identical in size, you can choose to add it as more capacity or as a RAID. If a RAID, then the DS will create a second copy of the first and significantly increased the system reliability.
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no,have yet to find one that does that..This one runs 2 things on same time frame,not separate..
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You can install any os to any hard drive if you format it properly, even external ones. I currently am running a dual boot between windows 7 and windows 10 each one on one one hard drive respectively. Hope this helps..
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I'm not an expert on the program, but i use 2 seperate HDD's with it and it caches/works for both of them at the same time if that's what you mean. If you're asking if there is a way so it only works for the 2 HDDs and not the SSD's, I'm not sure.
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You can install this OS on a physical server, and you can fire up two Windows Server VMs on that physical server. If you add additional physical servers, you will need a license for each physical server.
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This is a barebones kit. It does not come with a hard drive or RAM so you will need to purchase that separately. It will only take a 2.5" HDD or SSD (Laptop size) and laptop size ram. So therefore it does not have any OS loaded on it. I have MythBuntu running on mine and it runs great. I have seen other reviews where they say that it runs Win7 just fine as well.
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I believe that you are entitle to two installations. You are not supposed to be running both installs at the same time, as you still only have one license. If you have a problem, you can always call Adobe, and they will usually set you up for an additional install. I have had to do that with other Adobe products when a hard drive failed, and they have always been cooperative.
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If you wanted to run all 3 at the same time off this unit it probably won't work, but if you understand your constraints and only operate 1 at a time you shouldn't have a problem. It may take you a few days to tune in your settings, so be prepared for that. Once you establish your settings you will be golden.
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No, I have had it over a year now and it works fine. You do understand that each button controls a separate hard drive. If you push two buttons, only one will boot your computer and the other one will just run. Just remember to shut your computer down before you restart a different drive.
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Yeah, like anybody would want to mess around with Vista. LOL Have fun with your XP (and yeah, like you said, it does come on one disk).
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I dual boot win 7 and 8.1 and haven't experienced any issues. I find 8.1 to boot up fastest and overall better performance. Win 7 works great though!
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Hi to the best of my knowledge an experience on a Windows platform it shows as 2 separate drives. On the Mac os it shows as 1 drive.
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The only operating system I have used it with is Windows 8.1, I recommend 8.1 over 8. I had trouble with plain 8. Drive just does what it supposed to with 8.1 operating system. Installs with no effort.
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which os do you hav in it? i am running wins 8 and it loves it thats what it really needed. i am a computer builder and repairer.