Partitioning Advice

[ohnnyj]

Hello all:

I am about ready to get to settin up my system but wanted to ask you guys your recommendations for partitioning my hard drives. I have two 74GB Raptors and one 400GB Seagate. I have heard a lot of pros and cons for RAID-0 and due to the fact that many seem to say that Windows just seems smoother, I will go ahead and try that. However, many questions remain. I just read through a good article about partitioning here but they only went over one drive partitioning and made comments to larger drives. So, given a RAID-0 config as such should I still be partitioning a section for my OS, then another for a page file and yet another for games/apps/etc? Should I partition the Seagate into smaller sections for things like MP3s and Photos and such?

I really want to do this the best way to eek out the most performance and any help and advice is appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[madthumbs]

Directories or folders are much easier to resize. Less space is wasted if you don't have some overhead on each partition. The odds of having to reformat are extremely rare with ntfs. Have you considered raid 5?

 

[Zepper]

RAID 0 doubles your risk of data loss - there is an article about choosing between stand-alone drive or RAID 0 over on AT and another on storagereview.com both came to the conclusion that RAID 0 isn't worth the risk. I agree.

.bh.