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Hard drive question

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AMDPwred

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I've got a 20gig hard drive now with everything installed on it. Will partition it tomo for an 18gig (apps) and a 2gig (OS). I'll be starting programming this fall and I'm thinking of buying a small (3gig or 4gig) hard drive for programming alone. Would this be a good idea? Or should I just make another partition for it on my sole hard drive? Any opinions are welcome.
 
IMHO... 2G is a little small for the OS... apps still like to put shared stuff on C: I would make it 3G.

If you are running 98/ME adding a drive after the fact may screw up your drive letters. IIRC you can avoid that by only putting a secondary partition on the new drive. W2K doesnt have that problem.

You will have a real challenge finding a 3 or 4 gig HDD later if you expect it to be new. Ancient technology.
 
I have found several good deals in the FS/FT forum with 3 and 4gig HHDs. So are you saying that a partition of my 20gig would be better than adding a 3 or 4gig?
 
If you have enough space then I'd say yes. Later on you can get an 80G drive and use drive image to move it all over and expand the partitions.

There is no magic right or wrong here... its what meets your todays needs and where you want to take it tomorrow. For my 2 cents.. I use a single HDD (18G SCSI) with partitions. I dont like to overuse partitions either... More drives just means more heat and money and IDE interrupts etc etc.
 
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