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Well, this weekend I am finally doing my quad core install (sitting on the dining room table is painful to look at...just haven't had time), and I decided I am gonna "overhaul" my memory management.
I have two hard drives.... a 150 gb raptor and a 250 gb 7.2k.
I will be doing all partitioning with gparted on an ubuntu live cd.
The 250 gb isn't filling up anytime soon, so the partitions aren't quite as important. I may do a 30 gb seperate partition just for an actual install of ubuntu (been wanting to do this). I wont do a swap partition just cause I have 4 gb's of ram.
Now starts my dilemma. I want to partition the 10k 150g for the best possible performance (boot times and game load times). Does anyone have any recommendations on how to do this? Basically, I would want just a partition to boot xp from. The rest would be for games and apps. I am not sure how big a boot partition is supposed to be for windows. Also, after applying all of the patches, and adding in .NET frameworks and crap I am sure this needs to be at least 10 gb. After this should I just make the rest of the drive into one big games/apps partition? Or is it better to still break it into smaller partitions?
Also, when I make my partitions in Gparted, should I make my boot partition all the way on the left or the right for the best performance (I am inclined to believe the left).
I have two hard drives.... a 150 gb raptor and a 250 gb 7.2k.
I will be doing all partitioning with gparted on an ubuntu live cd.
The 250 gb isn't filling up anytime soon, so the partitions aren't quite as important. I may do a 30 gb seperate partition just for an actual install of ubuntu (been wanting to do this). I wont do a swap partition just cause I have 4 gb's of ram.
Now starts my dilemma. I want to partition the 10k 150g for the best possible performance (boot times and game load times). Does anyone have any recommendations on how to do this? Basically, I would want just a partition to boot xp from. The rest would be for games and apps. I am not sure how big a boot partition is supposed to be for windows. Also, after applying all of the patches, and adding in .NET frameworks and crap I am sure this needs to be at least 10 gb. After this should I just make the rest of the drive into one big games/apps partition? Or is it better to still break it into smaller partitions?
Also, when I make my partitions in Gparted, should I make my boot partition all the way on the left or the right for the best performance (I am inclined to believe the left).
