750Gb partition advice

Greebo · 8 May 2008 at 13:54

Okay, new build time again.

I have a Samsung T1 750Gb drive and an existing 160Mb and 500Mb drives.

I plan to do a clean install of both xp pro and vista.

New Samsung drive will be a lot faster than my existing drives so I want the operating system running on that.

With all that in mind, how do you recommend I set my partitions up on the new Samsung?

I don't really want to just split it in two between the two operating systems. Would 100 Gb for each and the other 550Gb as data be about right?

Or should I make them bigger for applications/games I install on each operating system?

Black_adder · 9 May 2008 at 08:22

3 way split sounds good... Maybe less for the OS's though, unless you really do Have 80 gigs of programs to install...?

Greebo · 9 May 2008 at 09:38

Games nowadays can take up to 7 Gb, multiply that by 6 or 7 and i'm getting to around 50Gb.

Or is it better just to the os on a partition and then anything I install on another partition eg:

partition 1: windows xp 30Gb
partition 2: windows vista 30Gb
partition 3: windows xp applications 100gb
partition 4: windows vista applications 100Gb
partition 5: general data 490Gb plus my existing drives of 660Gb

Or am I going mad?

bledd · 9 May 2008 at 10:23

nlite and vlite your windows installs

xp will need about 6-10gb, vista will need about 12-20gb

A2Z · 9 May 2008 at 10:32

why didnt u get the f1 1tb? its faster then the 750gb..

Greebo · 9 May 2008 at 12:52

A2Z said:
why didnt u get the f1 1tb? its faster then the 750gb..

Couldn't justify to myself the price premium! I hovered over the checkout button for ages but settled on the 750Gb. It's only slightly slower and the extra £40+ just didn't seem worth it for the little bit of extra speed and the 250Gb.

Got my 750Gb drive for £60 so figured if I need it, it will be better to buy another for £60 and put it in raid 0 and for only £20 more than the F1 1tb I would have 500Gb more space and a faster drive system anyway.