I'm getting a new hard drive should I set them up like this ?

[Sforsyth]

I have a 120 GB HD and a 10 GB hard drive and I'm getting a 250 GB HD on Wensday.

Should I put the the 250 in my computer as my C: drive main and put the 10 GB on my secondary cable with my DVD Writer ? I brun alot of DVD's will this effect this in any way ?

the other HD is going in my daughters computer.

I heard something about portioning a HD so you could install the OS on the fastest part of the HD I think the outer edge of the platter or something like that anyone know about this and if so how does this work?

Thanks guy's !

 

[jimbob200521]

this is just me, but i dont use my biggest hard drive as my main, ever. if i were you, id put the 120 as the main in your pc, and the 250 as secondary. id put the 10 in your daughters pc. that way, your not using the largest hard drive as the main and youll have pleanty of speed and space. as for the partitioning, if you could somehow get your os only on the outer part of your hard drive (which is the faster part), i dont thing that it would make that big of a differance, if any. itd probably be more trouble than itd be worth

 

[Sforsyth]

ok here's my thing I burn DVD's with both my computer and my daughters computer and 10 GB just isn't cutting it and the 120 GB HD is has only a 2 MB Cache and the 10 GB is only a 5400 RPM drive. The 250 GB I'm getting Wensday has a 16 MB Cache.

The only reason I was going to put the 10 GB in mine as a secondary drive is so I could keep backedup files on it that I like to have handy.

How should I portition my 120 GB in my daughters and the new 250 in mine would you say ?

Thanks.

 

[jimbob200521]

ok, fair enough. so if you put the 250gb in your pc as the main, then id partition it as a nice even 50gb main, and the rest for storage. you can adjust the amount you use for main, if you install a lot of programs that have large swap files, make it larger. if you dont, make it smaller. but in any case, i wouldnt go any smaller than 30gb, just to be safe for future installations, etc. as for you daughters pc, probably the same advice would ring true, no smaller than a 30gb main partition, and the rest for storage. hope this has helped.

 

[Sforsyth]

ok Thanks for the help !

 

[Sforsyth]

one last thing when I install big apps or games should I install them on my main OS portition or on a sprate one ?

 

[jimbob200521]

i always install them on my main partition. to me, it doesnt make sense installing them anywhere else because if you install them on a differant hard drive, if you ever reformat your hard drive, youll have to reinstall the apps anyway. there are some specific scenarios where installing them to differant drives makes sense, but not here.