One really big partition or lots of little ones?

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Tiamat

Lifer
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Do you already have a boot HDD? If this is just for backups you can either do 1 large partition for media, or you can separate out your music and form 2 unequal partitions...
 
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n7

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Depends on what it's being used for.

OS?
Storage?

I'd say maybe two if it's just storage, 3 if OS (1 small OS one, split the rest).
 
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Nitemare

Lifer
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400,000 1 Meg partitions

Do a 25-30 meg for the system partition, another one for programs and another one for data & movies
 
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eigen

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go with say 5 that should be redundant enough.
maybe something like: os install apps, porn,porn, stolen music,games.
 
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dc

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ONE PARTITION.
there's these new magical things called FOLDERS.
 
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Ornery

Lifer
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Partition it however you want, but I make sure I have the second HDD FDISKed as an extended partition, with a small partition at the beginning. I use that for my swap file, temporary internet files, and cache files for PhotoShop. The HDDs are the primary drives on each controller. I use the other partitions on the secondary HDD for backups.
 
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sniperruff

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whatever you need. if you have one hard drive and you mess up the OS install and you have one parition, you are screwed. i'd have at least 2 or 3 on a single hard drive. hell you can even set up a dual boot if you like then.
 
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Chronoshock

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Bah, 1 partition per HD. As someone said, what's the point of partitions when you got folders? I put OS/Apps one my raptor, assorted anime/movies/games on my larger storage drives
 
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Ornery

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"...what's the point of partitions when you got folders?"

They can segment the HDD, so that swap files, cache files, and other files that need to be accessed quickly are kept at the outside edge of the disc, which is the quickest to read from. It also separates your archived files, from files that are constantly changing, and at risk of corruption and cross links.
 
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NightCrawler

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Reasons to partition:

1. Easier to Ghost/True Image a smaller partition.
2. Easier to store MP3, downloads in their own partition.
3. Create another Windows XP install for emergency.

 
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Oyeve

Lifer
Oct 18, 1999
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Originally posted by: Ornery
"...what's the point of partitions when you got folders?"

They can segment the HDD, so that swap files, cache files, and other files that need to be accessed quickly are kept at the outside edge of the disc, which is the quickest to read from. It also separates your archived files, from files that are constantly changing, and at risk of corruption and cross links.
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Its still the same physical HD. Corruption and crossinks can happen anyway. I see no benefit on partitioning a HD. As far as your statement regarding the outside disc speed, I think that with the speed of todays HDs its a moot point and would probably yield no real benefit. The only reason I WOULD partition a 400gb HD is for a quick restore of the OS. So in his case I would make a 60 gig partition just for the OS and put everything on the other partition in proper folders: games, music etc. I would also ghost the OS partition onto DVD for fast restore. On my system I have 6 HDs, the smallest one being 200gigs. Each HD has a single partition and funtion. IE, The fastest drive has the OS, the largest drive has all my games, the next largest has my music and pics, and so on. The smallest HD has just a bunch of crap that I have been transfering from PC to newer PC to newer PC from way back in the early 80s! :).
 
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