What size is your OS/main drive?

[grrl]

Wow, lots of SSDs here.

25GB on a 320GB SATA drive with various file partitions and a second 320GB for pagefile, scratch disks and backup zip files.

 

[secretanchitman]

500GB drive, and i have approximately 420GB partitioned for osx and the rest for windows 7.

 

[Kadarin]

iMac here, with a 2TB drive, no Windows partition. Important data is on an external Drobo FS NAS.

 

[HAL9000]

iMac here, with a 2TB drive, no Windows partition. Important data is on an external Drobo FS NAS.

I've always fancied a Drobo... What's it like compared to a RAID server or another NAS...?

 

[Ben90]

2x WD RE3 500GB RAID 0 for OS
4x WD RE2 750GB RAID 0 for other

My friend works for a computer place and we split a box of 20+ free hard drives. He got all the good ones, and we took the magnets out of the Deathgates 7200.10 lol.

 

[stargazr]

120GB Intel X-25 M G2 SSD for Win 7 and apps

1.5 WD Black 1.5TB for data, My Documents, downloads and temp file.

 

[rcpratt]

160GB Intel X25-M G2. Which probably doesn't sound nearly as impressive as it was two years ago.

 

[dfuze]

160GB Intel X25-M G2. Which probably doesn't sound nearly as impressive as it was two years ago.

2x more impressive than my 80gb Intel x25

 

[tfinch2]

64 gb ssd

 

[xSauronx]

1.2 TB via 2 RAID 0 64gb drives

 

[Wyndru]

64gb ssd, 2tb esata hdd for nightly backup (it also backs up data on other drives too).

 

[HamburgerBoy]

640GB Windows XP.

 

[MotF Bane]

60GB, older SSD. Fits the OS, and a handful of large programs, e.g. Photoshop, Starcraft II, TF2, and another game. I cannot justify a larger newer SSD right now, but if I were just looking for a first SSD, I'd go past 100GB.

Oh - and all data, music, videos, movies, stuff like that, is on a server.

 

[996GT2]

80GB SSD/1TB HDD on desktop
40GB SSD/500GB HDD on laptop

 

[nanaki333]

2x intel 320 160GB SSD raid0 for main OS, 240GB vertex 3 for steam, 2x 1TB raid0 local storage, 8.5TB usable NAS

 

[bignateyk]

hmm.. I think it's 40gb on my netbook. I've never had a drive over 40gb... not sure how anyone could ever use 1tb of storage. I've never even come close to filling my 40gb.

 

[SparkyJJO]

I used to run a 50 GB partition (windows and apps only, games went on D but now my C: is my entire 250GB drive, and D : is my 1 TB drive, and E: is another 250GB drive for general storage and backup.

 

[deimos3428]

3x64GB SSDs in RAID0 for the OS/programs. (3x2TB NAS for storage).

OP: In your case, I'd recommend copying your data to the 2TB, and rebuilding the whole 500GB as the Windows 7 system drive. No need to partition anything.

When you can afford an SSD later on, just backup the system drive to an image on the 2TB, and restore the image to your new SSD.

 

[groberts101]

60gb agility 1, think it's about to die (have bluescreened to chkdsk twice in the last week, now chrome doesn't work )

If you run this..
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?68136-Drive-Identity-Tool

and post the info here..
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...lid-V2-Colossus-and-Z-Drive-with-Microsoft-OS.

they can get you a "special request non-public" destructive flash to sort any corruption issues and most likely eliminate the panic lock that the drive may be heading towards.

Even if it does lock.. it's not dead as many seem to think and the drive can be recovered without RMA using this same scenario(with the exception of the id tool being usable at that point and serial number would be required to get the correct version).

oops.. almost forgot to stay on topic. 6 x 50GB Vertex 2's in R0 for 280 gigs of available space with only 80 gigs striped for the OS.

 

[lsv]

Intel G2 80gig for OS/software

 

[Dark Shroud]

I'm using a single WD Caviar Black 2TB drive for everything right now with a 750gig WD Caviar Black drive for back up.

 

[allthatisman]

2x intel 320 160GB SSD raid0 for main OS, 240GB vertex 3 for steam, 2x 1TB raid0 local storage, 8.5TB usable NAS

Goodness, that is a lot of money wrapped up in storage.

 

[nanaki333]

Goodness, that is a lot of money wrapped up in storage.

teehee. my wife's pc has a 64GB x25-e, then all of my laptops and HTPCs have SSDs.

 

[LokutusofBorg]

If there's only one OS, there's only one partition. Partitioning was handy back when OS reinstalls needed to be a common thing, and when the FS was not too reliable. Neither of those should be an issue, today.

This.

I have a 500GB single platter drive for my OS/apps, single partition.

All games, data, documents, music, videos, downloads, etc. go on a 1TB storage drive. Provides for easy reinstall of Windows -- and most programs require a reinstall, so they can just get wiped with a format. Makes installs easy too, as I just let everything install to its default location (except games, I redirect to D:\Games\WhateverGameItIs). I reinstall Steam and then copy my old Steam folder over top, and don't have to re-download everything. Keeps my save games too. I haven't had to reinstall Windows 7 in two years here, though. So as mentioned, reinstalls used to be a much bigger concern than they are now.

At work I have a 120GB Vertex 2 with a 1TB storage drive. I run OS, programs, and all dev tools, as well as my SQL databases, on the SSD. All backups, bulk storage, music, etc. live on the 1TB.

 

[duragezic]

Yeah that would probably work best, but I was wanting to use my new drive for OS/apps though due to it's speed. I was worried buying these stupid "green" 5400rpm drives that I'd lose performance compared to my 500gb 7200rpm. Yet the simple speed test tool from the Device Manager shows:

Samsung F4 2 TB 5400rpm: Sustained: 149 MB/s Burst: 186 MB/s
Samsung F1 500gb 7200rpm: Sustained: 84 MB/s Burst: 144 MB/s

Which is a huge difference. I know drives get faster... like my 500gb 7200rpm drive was a bit faster than my 250gb 7200rpm drive (and so on), but I didn't expect the 5400rpm to be that much faster.

edit: I'm leaning towards a 300 GB partition for OS/apps/games and the other ~1.5 TB for storage, with the most important ~500 GB synced to my 500gb drive as backup. My current data requires about 360 GB storage so I would be able to expand my data storage 4x and my OS/apps/games storage almost 4x.