Partition Hard Drive

[munruss]

Just received Windows 7 Pro and I am trying to figure out the partitions of my hard drive. I'm running two 750 GB hard drives with RAID 1. I have about 20 GB of music, my files and software that I keep online. On my old system, I had separate partitions for my music, files and downloads. I trying to figure out if I should do the same or something else.

What are your thoughts?

 

[Chiefcrowe]

if you're going to partition, i'd do one at 100GB and the rest for the 2nd partition.

 

[munruss]

I was in the ball park. I went with 150GB for the primary.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: munruss
I was in the ball park. I went with 150GB for the primary.

I think the 100 GB to 150 GB region is a good choice. It makes backing up/restoring the System partition a reasonably fast operation, while still allowing plenty of room for new OSes and programs. You can always store data on the System partition if you need to.

 

[SimMike2]

Mine are 100GB, which seems to work fine, even with my current bloated Vista install. The biggest advantage of keeping your OS on a smaller partition of the hard drive is that it leaves the secondary partition open to store an image file of your OS, or copies of your files, as in backups. This way if your OS gets hosed, you have a good backup image. Better yet is to get two internal drives.