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is partitioning worth it?

Depends. It's all about how you *use* your hard drive and manage the programs/etc on there.

One hard drive with partitions-- neglectible.

Two hard drives with their own partitions-- better performance overall.

-J.
 
yeah its better to have more than one hdd one for windows drivers etc, the other for storage games whatever else you wanna backup. easier to manage your swap and all that that way too.
 
Easier to backup your precious files too. Put them on them on a non OS partition, and if your OS dies from a virus or whatever, you can reformat w/o losing your stuff.
 
N_Raged said:
Easier to backup your precious files too. Put them on them on a non OS partition, and if your OS dies from a virus or whatever, you can reformat w/o losing your stuff.
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Exactly why ever system I've ever built for myself has had 2 and only 2 hard drives.
 
I've had best performance, by locking OS and apps into a 10GB partition at beginning of drive, fastest part. If you can comfortably swing a smaller partion for these things, all the better. I page everything into RAM, not very bright, but neither is RAID0 with 4 drives.
 
I split my 3 hard drives into 6 partitions to make my organizing life easier. I got a windows drive, random drive, mp3 drive, picture drive and a hobbies drive. As for performance, I don't see any improvements other than the fact I can find my files faster.
 
heh, why does 10GB for the OS partition seem to be the magic number :) . Mine's 10GB too, but I can't remember where I got that tip from.
 
I have to ask however, partitioning and defragging. How does these go about? Defragging each partition? Which is most likely vulnerable to fragments? How does it work...?

-J.
 
N_Raged said:
heh, why does 10GB for the OS partition seem to be the magic number :) . Mine's 10GB too, but I can't remember where I got that tip from.
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Mine is 5GB.. can have around 2GB free. If I keep it clean enough, I don't have any problems.
 
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