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Single Drive...partioning options?

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Fragster

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With my up-coming new rig (after price cuts), I have a question of how to optimise the single 320 GB HDD for gaming (its gonna be the Seagate 320 GB with perpendicular recording).

Should I create 2 partitions and keep the OS/apps on one while use the secondary parition for games?

Or should I use 1 parition for everything?

Which way would give me better gaming performance?

TIA
Frag
 
I use 1 partition for os/games/apps and the 2nd partition for storing my downloads/system files, so if I need to reload, its all on the 2nd partition and ready to load.
I am not sure on the speed difference. I know that drive rocks. :)
It loads at least as fast as my 36.4gb raptor(or i cant tell the diff)
 
If gaming performance is your only concern, just leave everything on one partition...
 
For best overall performance, create an OS/app/game partition of about 30GB. You can partition the rest however you like.
 
enginurd said:
For best overall performance, create an OS/app/game partition of about 30GB. You can partition the rest however you like.
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Ditto.. But I would opt for 60gb as the main partition. I have the same exact drive with a 60gb partition. Currently 30gb is used up with Vista Ultimate and a few apps (No games yet!). Some current games can take up as much as 3-5gb.
 
Better yet, three partitons, 2 x 60GB (one with Vista, one with XP so you can try out the new stuff whilst still having the old fallback of XP) and the remainder of the drive for applications, games etc. By putting your games on their own drive letter means you can "install" the games on both operating systems, when technically you'll be only having one copy of the files on your drive.

Save games won't be shared though between OS's, since Windows likes to put them nowadays in the "Documents and Settings" folder which is a pain :(
 
for gaming, partitioning won't help much. but as always, it's wise to create a large partition for your data, for when you need to format.
 
This is a contentious subject with many opinions. Here's mine.
My primary HDD has 3 partitions.

C - Strictly for game installs. Fastest part of the disk.
E - Windows installation
F - NTFS formatted bulk file storage . Slowest part of the disk.
(D is the DVD)
Theoretically the game files can be accessed faster.

My second HDD has 3 partitions.

G - Linux installation
H - NTFS formatted bulk file storage backup and paging file.
(If the paging files need to be acessed during gaming, they are on a separate drive and can be accessed without moving out of C on the primary HDD.)
I - Linux formatted bulk storage.
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See this: http://partition.radified.com/ (From the sticky)

And I got this: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/geom/tracksZBR-c.htmlhttp://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=741512
From here: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=741512
 
Thx guys!! Highly appreciated

How does this look??
C: 100GB ...Games
E: 80GB ....OS+Apps...
F: 140GB.....Multimedia (photos, ripped movies, audio files, docs)

Frag

BTW just came back from my trip to San Diego and LA (Disneyland) and had a real bad experiance driving thru LA downtown (witnessed 'minor' drive-by ON the freeway with speeding drivers ...staight out of Matrix:eek: :eek:). Next time, Im catching a plane:(
 
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