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Do you partition your HD? How?

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Limp Gawd
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im about to get a 320gb WD and plan on using it for everything (storage, os, apps ect ect)

how would yall partition out 320gb?
 
I'd have one partition for OS and programs (preferrably at the beginning of the drive) and one for data. Makes backups much easier.
 
Personally, I'd do 10 OS, 30-60 Apps (depends on how much you put on, mainly games), and rest I call Data

No real need to split up OS and Apps, sicne you g2 format both... just keeps OS at fastest part of the drive platter.
 
Drive size - 4xRAM --- OS & Apps, Local Profiles
4x installed RAM (at present that means 2GB) for the page file (last partition)
mass data on slow IDE drives

the reason i like having my page file on its own partition is this: once you've made that page file, and written other stuff to the filesystem it's on, when that SOB grows it's just going to grow around the other data on the filesystem. then, you have a fragmented page file, and you can't do anything about it. Defrag won't touch it.

it sucks. plus, with the partition at the end of the drive i get to put my swap file on the fastest part of the drive (the outer edge of the platters). i notice a difference anyway.

i'm considering having another drive just for the page file, but i've got to justify putting another hot ass SCSI drive in my case first :)
 
LightningCrash said:
it sucks. plus, with the partition at the end of the drive i get to put my swap file on the fastest part of the drive (the outer edge of the platters). i notice a difference anyway.
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I thought that the drives mapped the first sectors to the outside of the platter, not the last. I could be wrong.

The logic for this (as I see it) is that the OS is the first thing that gets loaded on the drive, usually on the first partition in the (logical) beginning of the drive. So the drive manufacturers figure that most people won't ever use much more than this, might as well give them the faster portion of the drive first, and thus improve the perception of speed.
 
well.. i just recently did 20gb xp, 20gb, 2k3 server, 110gb "data"

i am going to put a 2nd 160gb in my case though.. hopefully 2 samsungs will be cooler than a maxtor + samsung, like i had before..

i will probably try a 10gb scratch/pagefile on the 2nd hd when i do that..

in your case.. i would probably do at least 20gb for the OS/programs.. maybe more if you have some big programs..

i have worked with everything just there on a 160gb.. os/programs/data.. but reformatting was a bitch cause i had to back up the whole drive first..
 
scottatwittenberg said:
well.. i just recently did 20gb xp, 20gb, 2k3 server, 110gb "data"

i am going to put a 2nd 160gb in my case though.. hopefully 2 samsungs will be cooler than a maxtor + samsung, like i had before..

i will probably try a 10gb scratch/pagefile on the 2nd hd when i do that..

in your case.. i would probably do at least 20gb for the OS/programs.. maybe more if you have some big programs..

i have worked with everything just there on a 160gb.. os/programs/data.. but reformatting was a bitch cause i had to back up the whole drive first..
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what is this 'pagefile' everyone is talking about?
this will be my first time partitioning....ive always just used the entire drive as a whole....
 
Page file + physical RAM = virtual memory.

Page file is portion of hard drive set apart to sort of act as RAM. That's pretty much right, isn't it?
 
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