x25-m: 1 partition or 2?

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sirsad

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I usually make a smaller boot partition on my os drive in order to make format c:\ a bit easier. This is a bit dated since it really came from win9x days and xp/vista/win7 doesn't kill itself like win9x did. But I still kinda like it for organization purposes.

So is there any reason not to partition my 160GB x25-m 2 ways, one at ~50GB for win7+basic apps and the other for World of Warcraft and any other game? I have a 1TB drive for storage.
 
As a rule of thumb, never make your boot partition smaller than 60GB. Use your entire 160GB as C and put the 1TB as D
 
I'm in the research phase myself since i just bought the 80gb version, everything i've read so far tells me i shouldn't partition the drive for reason(s) i can't remember.

Just a heads up to research the matter before committing one way or the other, unless someone in this forum can provide a brief explanation (?)
 
#1 Not other than what #2 says, but seems to me that you know what you needs are, so go ahead.

#3, you can't not partition the drive... Also, Win7 creates it's own 200MB rescue partition, so by installing windows you are already creating two.
 
I'm in the research phase myself since i just bought the 80gb version, everything i've read so far tells me i shouldn't partition the drive for reason(s) i can't remember.
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Difficulty with alignment when trying to restore a single partition?

If you're using a small partition for the OS the drive you will constantly be using those cells and wear them out faster?

The main reason I used to partition was to keep the OS on the fastest part (outside) of a mechanical disk.

This doesn't apply to solid state drives.

#3, you can't not partition the drive... Also, Win7 creates it's own 200MB rescue partition,
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I don't use system restore and deleted that partition during install.
 
You have a 2nd drive to use for storage, so use your whole 160Gb drive for OS, apps, installs.
Keep your data, docs, photos, etc. on the 1Tb drive. That solves your reformat problem.

From what I've read there's a little performance hit, and possibly wear problems with small partitions that are mostly filled.

More empty space the better.
 
More empty space the better.
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Yep...Even though I have 2 X 80GB Intel units in RAID0 it's only for my OS and programs which use 24GB.

Larger free space allows the drives "wear" more evenly.

I've used the small OS only drive for many years because it's much easier/quicker to image and restore without storage data.
 
Sounds like I shouldn't partition the SSD. And I do know about the 100-200mb partition win7 puts in but I do plan on deleting it during install.

One thing other's may not know is that world of warcraft is like 30gb right now and doesn't require a reinstall after a format. So it is much easier to format and not have to install all that. Of course, it is only in an extreme failure of the os that I won't be able to copy the directory to the storage drive before a format so I think is a low risk today when compared to win9x. And of course, the other reason for a second partition was to be able to defrag differently or easier and that isn't needed anymore.
 
I have no data supporting or contradicting it, but partitioning doesn't necessarily have to limit writes to a certain area. With a platter drive, the data spirals around the platter - there's a definite beginning and end. With an SSD, it's just a bunch of memory chips. The wear-leveling actually works by remapping different chips to the same logical location. As long as the controller has an index of which "sector" is stored in which page, it could be in any location in any of the flash chips. It would need to know that there's 50GB of data in the first partition and which pages that data is stored in and that there's a 30GB partition and where those pages are, but it wouldn't necessarily need to use the first 5/8 of the flash chips for the first partition and the last 3/8 of the flash for the second partition.
 
Intel 80 G2:

C:\ Windows 7 44.4 (23.7 used)
H:\ Windows XP 30.0 (10.5 used)

The drive performs the same as one partition and windows 7 installed. I partitioned XP because the mouse movement doesn't feel the same as anairs accel fix and games still perform better on XP.

Used Crystal Disk Mart + HD Tune Pro to confirm.
 
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