Poll: What's the best way to setup a C: Drive?

[krackato]

What's the best way to setup a C: drive? Enjoy the poll.

 

[John]

Use the fastest hdd that you can afford for the c:\ drive (OS & programs). I'd only partition the drive if you think it will be beneficial. Otherwise pick up a 2nd hdd for backups and storage.

 

[jkresh]

If you don't mind the noise and have the budget then getting a 150gig raptor for your C and a 500-1tb drive for media is probably the best way to go. Otherwise some of the new 750+GB drives are as fast as the raptor for most things so making one of them you C drive would not be bad idea.

 

[Cheex]

A smaller drive will do you more good.

 

[buddhatb]

Would it be more beneficial for the C drive to have a larger cache size?

 

[jkresh]

more cache is always better (though hybrid drives are of debatable benefit at the moment)

 

[Roguestar]

I partition mine for ease of formatting.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I have a 74gb Raptor for boot, two 150gb Raptors in RAID 0 for games, temp and scratch data, and 5x500gb RE2s in RAID 5 for storage. I'm definitely a fan of having a smaller (<128gb) disk for boot.

 

[jfall]

I partition mine, 20gb or so for windows, all other space on another drive. Keep all of my files and settings on the other drive. Makes things easy when it comes time to format Windows

 

[Ghouler]

I always do cross-setup. 2 HDs each with 2 partitions. Disk 1 Partition 1 for OS and Disk 2 Partition 2 for Data. Then Disk 2 Partition 1 for OS and Disk 1 Partition 2 for Data.

Data on Disk 2 Partion 2 backups data from Disk 1 Partition 2. This way my data is always backed up and I always have 2 system drives in case there is any system failure.

 

[Old Hippie]

I like mine horizontal.

 

[0roo0roo]

os partition for easier image/restore

 

[Slugbait]

I also have a small C: (10G) partition for the OS, which I image...since I only have a couple of hours a day to play, restoring an image saves me weeks of rebuilding from a formatted drive if I have to clean it for whatever reason (virus, etc).

My Raptor is actually partitioned in three: the D: drive will eventually serve as my Vista partition, so it's currently bare. Drive E: contains temp folders for all my ripping apps, and a few installed apps.

My second hard drive is for the pagefile, more installed apps, and storage.