How would use 190GB of space?? need an expert advice..

[NiKan]

Hi~
I have Two IBM HDD 40GB & 30 GB both running at 7200rpm..
In a few days I will get WD 120GB with 8mb buffer memory..

I have a lot of games and movies and etc..
How would u partition the HDDs? I use eDonkey2000 and Kazaa
should I make a seperate partition for eDonkey? since it makes a lot of fragmented files..
thank you for your reply ^^;

 

[Valent]

uhh, this is more appropriate for isonews, not anandtech.

nobody cares.

 

[Wolfsraider]

Valent=nobody? what logical reason do you have for saying that?

i am no expert

i would put the wd for os and the 30 gig as edonkey the 40 gig i would use as a backup drive

you don't list whether you have raid as an option or a controller card so to run all three and two optical drives you may find a controller card necessary.
but,another choice would be:
if you raid the two ibm drives you would lose 10 gigs but have better speed for the os (if you put the os on the ibm drives)
then you could make three partitions on the wd 1 for edonkey another for kazaa and the third for?

which os are you running and system specs?

hth
mike

 

[NiKan]

I considered using raid_0 on my ibm drives, but people said
it is too risky compare to performance gain..
and.. I will put my windows xp on my WD drive for sure, since my WD have 8mb buffer
compare to 2mb on my ibm drive..
can u give me more advice given the situation wolf??

 

[NiKan]

my spec is..

AMD athlone classic 750mhz
crucial PC133 sdram 256MB ECC
Geforce2 gts 32mb
enermax 350Wts PS
pioneer 16x DVD ROM
LG 16/10/40 CDRW
WinXP pro

 

[Wolfsraider]

Originally posted by: NiKan
I considered using raid_0 on my ibm drives, but people said
it is too risky compare to performance gain..
and.. I will put my windows xp on my WD drive for sure, since my WD have 8mb buffer
compare to 2mb on my ibm drive..
can u give me more advice given the situation wolf??

ok your running:
AMD athlone classic 750mhz
crucial PC133 sdram 256MB ECC
Geforce2 gts 32mb
enermax 350Wts PS
pioneer 16x DVD ROM
LG 16/10/40 CDRW
WinXP pro

you need to pick up a cheap controller card to put your hdd's on.which means of course you'll need a free pci slot.
that way you will have:
120 gig on primary master no need to partition this into smaller drives unless you just want to.os here as you stated.
dvd on primary slave on mobo
dvd on secondary master on mobo
40 gig on primary master on controller card for edonkey
30 gig on secondary master on controller card for backups

i hope this is what your asking for?

also i would recommend ntfs for security

raid 0 is risky but having your os on it with your programs/files on the 120 would be nice if you have a program like drive image to copy the os onto after installing the os and all drivers as it makes a quick restore to original specs.but you would have to reinstall all the programs back on it after to fix the broken links to the other drive.i agree that raid is risky but others use it daily so i offered it as a solution.

i recommended the above setup as it still lets you copy on the fly and cdrw to harddrive is not on the same channel
also each ibm drive is seperated to different channels for faster? copying

hth
mike

 

[Bovinicus]

Make a 2-4GB OS parition on your Western Digital Drive. Then, make another partition for your applications and games. It really depends on how many programs you like to have installed at once. 20-40GB is probably sufficient. Use your other drives to hold lots of DiVX and MP3 files. If you find yourself with a lot of extra space, make a backup partition on one of your IBM drives with all the important information you might need. You could give eDonkey it's own partition if you really want, but I have no idea what that is, so I cannot comment.

 

[Goosemaster]

You tell me:

<---Has an
-18GB____Quantum 10kII____10k__scsi drive__(OS)
-40GB____IBM 60GXP_______7.2k__IDE drive__(Video Editing "BUFFER")
-120GB___WesternDigitalSE__7.2k__IDE drive__(Storage)

 

[Smilin]

Put the 120 as your boot/OS drive. Put the two 40's together in a Raid 1 array (not 0 like everyone else is saying) so you can back stuff up for it. Use the 30 for eDonkey.

OR (if you have the cash) Put the 40's + the 30 in a raid 5 array and use it for boot/OS/pagefile, use the 120 for backup and eDonkey. The first solution is probably a better one but with this one you get to have raid 5! hehe

 

[Kubla Khan]

Well, you know.....Pr*n
just a suggestion.

 

[glugglug]

Keep your IBM drives, or just throw them away rather than waiting a few minutes for them to fail.

Send me the WD 120 and I will make use of it.

OK, seriously, use the IBM drives for SWAP. They are too unreliable for anything else. Give Kazaa it's own partition as it writes to disk every packet it gets, so downloading more than 1 file at a time in Kazaa is the #1 way to lead to massive fragmentation. Actually for security reasons I recommend giving Kazaa its own virtual machine.

Keeping your OS on its own partition isn't a bad idea either. Most apps will pick your OS partition as their default install dir however. As long as you are careful to specify the correct separate partition every time you install something, its highly unlikely your OS partition will ever need to be bigger than about 7GB. (I'd go with 10 just for a lot of breathing room & a nice round number)

Dunno if you need a separate partition for e-donkey, but if it writes in the same patterns Kazaa does I'd say yes (or use the same partition as Kazaa)

 

[Bovinicus]

You're just going right out and calling the IBM drives unreliable without even finding out which version they are? The 60GXPs and 120GXPs don't have nearly the reliability problems then 75GXPs have. On top of that, if you leave your drives on all the time, as me and my friends do, you might have a better chance of the drive not failing. I have had my 75GXP for quite a long time. I know at least 5 people who have been running 75GXPs in their systems around the same time frame. We all keep them running constantly and have not ever run into a problem.