I have a work at home computer which I had custom built a couple of years ago. It consists of
coolermaster mid tower case
Gigabyte 945p-s3 motherboard
NVDIA GeForce 7300 LE Graphics card
NVDIA GeForce FX 5200 Graphics card
intel E6700 2.7 ghz process
4 gb pc5300 ddr2-667 ram
2 250gb sata hard drives
1 DVD ROM drive
1 CD-RW burner
Win XP professional OS
The system came with two hard drives; one of which was intended to be maintained as clone of the primary and is normally off.
I'm thinking of building a box myself which would provide equal or better performance than the above, but dispense with the dual monitors and since I don't use the spare hard which is rack mounted with key switch, I would transfer it to the new box. The notion of interchangeable hard drives has some appeal, because then I could easily move one system to the other simply by swapping out hard drives.
However, since some of the other components will not be the same is this a realistic tactic. What is going to happen when I install my existing cloned hd into the new box and boot it up?
coolermaster mid tower case
Gigabyte 945p-s3 motherboard
NVDIA GeForce 7300 LE Graphics card
NVDIA GeForce FX 5200 Graphics card
intel E6700 2.7 ghz process
4 gb pc5300 ddr2-667 ram
2 250gb sata hard drives
1 DVD ROM drive
1 CD-RW burner
Win XP professional OS
The system came with two hard drives; one of which was intended to be maintained as clone of the primary and is normally off.
I'm thinking of building a box myself which would provide equal or better performance than the above, but dispense with the dual monitors and since I don't use the spare hard which is rack mounted with key switch, I would transfer it to the new box. The notion of interchangeable hard drives has some appeal, because then I could easily move one system to the other simply by swapping out hard drives.
However, since some of the other components will not be the same is this a realistic tactic. What is going to happen when I install my existing cloned hd into the new box and boot it up?