How big should my os drive be?

[Arminhama]

Guys,

I am going to be running 3 OS- Vistax64, XP32 and Ubuntu 7.10 (15 days til 8.04!) on one drive. Im not too sure of how much hd space I'm going to need though. I will be gaming on XP and Vista, and I will use Ubuntu for everything esle. I was thinking of getting a 160gb drive, but that seems like it may be overkill to me. What do you guys think?

 

[Arminhama]

eh, I went for a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822148262

 

[taltamir]

just partition and dual boot from the same drive.

Get one big drive, like 640GB WD drive (its one of the fastest out there). And then make a 50GB partition for windows, a 50GB partition for ubentoo, and a partition with all the leftover space for general storage (which is accessible from both OSes)

 

[Tweakin]

Originally posted by: taltamir
just partition and dual boot from the same drive.

Get one big drive, like 640GB WD drive (its one of the fastest out there). And then make a 50GB partition for windows, a 50GB partition for ubentoo, and a partition with all the leftover space for general storage (which is accessible from both OSes)

I agree...but I would make the partitions a little larger, say 100GB each.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

XP SP2 install on laptop -- 8.42gb (general stuff installed)
XP SP2 install on desktop -- 19.4gb (everything installed plus some games)
Server 2003 on file server -- 8.24gb (minimal installation)
XP SP2 install on test machine -- 18.2gb (lots of misc stuff installed)
Ubuntu Server with GDE -- 2.8gb

I don't have a Vista box anymore, so I can't help you there.

 

[Tweakin]

Just remember that fragmentation occurs at a much greater rate once your partition is more then 50% full.

 

[Ratman6161]

Originally posted by: Arminhama
Guys,

I am going to be running 3 OS- Vistax64, XP32 and Ubuntu 7.10 (15 days til 8.04!) on one drive. Im not too sure of how much hd space I'm going to need though. I will be gaming on XP and Vista, and I will use Ubuntu for everything esle. I was thinking of getting a 160gb drive, but that seems like it may be overkill to me. What do you guys think?

YOu could also download vmware server for free. Then install one os and run the others as virtual machines. If you plan to play games, make Windows the host system and everything else a VM.

 

[Arminhama]

thanks for all of the input, but i already bought my drive.
i think the size will be enough sense i keep my media files on other drives.
i figure ~77gb for each os would be fine since ill only be installing games and programs