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setting up hard drives - web serving, dowloading, workstation

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I use my desktop for a lot of different things. Serves webpages, I ownload a lot of music, burn CD's, Autocad, Photoshop, email, etc...

Just wondering if I should be using more than one hard drive for "multi-tasking". Like a small drive for the websites, a drive for file storage and downloading to, etc...

Any thoughts? Where would you like to see my OS, and programs? Would like to be able to easily make an image of the OS and anything else you think is important onto another drive and maybe burn cd's of the imgae.

Currently I am using the 45 gig IBM and have an 80 WD sitting on my desk.

thanks guys/gals
 
To be honest, I don't think it's worth it. If you have a SCSI setup (which by the size of your drives I doubt it) then maybe it would be beneficial to have for example your Photoshop swap file and windows swap file on separate hd's. IDE however, you're not going to see much (if any) performance advantage from splitting up your programs/etc on both drives.

Best thing you can do it's use them for organisational purposes, o/s and programs on one drive. And you could have data/misc stuff on the other.


*friendly bump for others to suggest while I'm at it*
 
Well,

putting those HDs in different IDE channels will give you some more I/O. I would have my OS in one disk (obviously?), and would put all temp and swap files on the other. Ive seen this helps especially in heavy use of photoshop. I would also do the downloading to the 2nd hd, aswell as playing mp3s, webpages... This way you can keep using the system without performance loss...

VP6 has a raid option, right? Make the IBM primary master, DVD secondary master, cdrw secondary slave, put the WD in raid controller...

I would?

Any other ideas... anybody
 
I don't think you'd notice a big performance improvement from separate drives, but organizing into separate partitions could help to isolate fragmentation and provide a small overall performance boost. It would also make it easier to defrag the drives.

Personally, I like to put the OS and hardware drivers in a partition by themselves. These things change infrequently so this partition should not fragment quickly. I put application programs in a separate partition. Over time the applications usually end up growing to two and then three partitions as I install more things and have to deal with the apparent geometric size increase of most application upgrades. I like to put the swap file in a partition by itself, though if you make it persistent and large enough to begin with it shouldn't fragment too badly if put on the application partition. As much as possible I try to keep data files separate from OS and applications. With some apps this is almost impossible, so it's not a hard, fast rule, just a guideline.

The basic idea is to create one partition for the OS which no one else should mess with, and then create a series of additional partitions to house items of increasing likelihood of fragmentation. Fragmentation isn't nearly the problem it used to be, but it still doesn't hurt to try to avoid and isolate it as much as possible.
 
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