How are multiple drives displayed on a Mac Pro's screen

I was wondering, if multiple hard disks are installed in the computer, will the computer show multiple Hard Drive icons on the desktop or will the Macintosh HD's capacity just become larger?

if multiple hard disks are installed in the computer, will the computer show multiple Hard Drive icons on the desktop
Yes.
will the Macintosh HD's capacity just become larger?
Doing that requires setting up a RAID array in addition to connecting the drives.
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