who has win2k alone on a partition? how big?

[bigbootydaddy]

hmm, i want to stick win2k on a scsi hdd, or at least on a 7200 rpm ide, and dunno how much win2k will take up, i think a 9.1 gig drive will be big enough.

whats a good card to get scsi going considering i have an abit vp-6 with the highpoint and i heard there might be problems.

please be kind to my wallet on the card, one scsi hdd is enough for now.

 

[Adul]

9.1 GB is plenty big enough. Unless you install a ton of apps. Win2k should occupy around a gb of space.

 

[Davegod75]

have it by itself on my 20.0GB 60GXP. Then i have a 45gb 75gxp as my data drive

 

[bigbootydaddy]

cool, yeah i didnt think 9.1 wouldnt be enough, but if i can get away with like a 4 gig drive, id rather do that,

now, recommendations on a scsi card?

 

[pjs]

I did a full install of w2k on a 1.6GB drive. After the install, there was something like 400 to 500 MB of space left. There was another drive in the system for the swap file and applications, though. So it seems, that once installed, about 1.1GB are needed for a full (not a minimum) installation.

On other systems with big drives, I partition them as follows: 2 to 4 GB for w2k (drive C), 1 to 2 GB for the large, constant-size swap file (drive D), and what is left is split up into 8GB logical drives (drive E for applications, drive F for data files, etc.).

Unless you have a whole lot of stuff to put on your drive, 9.1GB should be enough, even a 4GB one might be.

Paul

 

[Jvolm]

9.1 oughtta be OK. I wouldn't go to 4 GB, though.

A guy did that here, and now we're trying to fix it, as that over the past few months, the system directory has dropped to 88MB free space.

 

[EmperorRob]

1 Gig w/no drivers/apps installed(give or take a few megs), NTFS.

 

[tristramshandy]

As for your next scsi adapter card, have a look at this article from
storagereview.com: "Adaptec 29160 vs. Tekram DC-390U3W". [Sorry, I'm not sure how to link this page.]

Definitely go for Scsi 160 if you can afford it (it's good value and high performance). By the way -- all you scsi-peoples -- did you know you can get free shipping from hypermicro.com if you mention storagereview?--That's what it say.

 

[bigbootydaddy]

ok, so if i want an lvd 68 pin card

whats a good cheap card? (if they exist)

if not, what is a good cheap card with any type of config (50 pin, etc) as long as i can run a 10k rpm drive on it?

 

[BigToque]

I have my OS partition and all my installed 'necessary' programs (office/system apps/etc/swap file) on C:\.

It is a 3.4GB NTFS partition. 1.3GB freee

D:\ is FAT32 with the rest of the free space.