Advice on large disk partitioning

[Memphis]

First off, I wasn't totally sure where to put this, so apologies if I'm in the wrong place.

Ok, I'm looking for a little advice on how my fellow OcUK'ers would tackle the partitioning in the following situation:


I'm currently rebuilding my Dad's PC for him. The PC is used by my Dad, Mum and Brother for gaming.

The PC will have a total of 400Gb of storage, spread across 2x 75Gb disks and a single 250Gb disk.

I don't have RAID available to me on this machine.

As stated, my brother uses this PC for gaming, so will need a chunk of space for that. One drive (or partition) needs to be set aside for what we call the "Documents" drive. Where all of my parents work stuff sits, along with all of our own personal documents, images and multimedia.

Now in all honesty I'm not sure what my best option would be for partitioning. Should I keep one of the 75gb disks for Windows, the other for the Docs drive and give my brother a full 250Gb??? Formatting and fragmentation nightmare???

Any advise on the most optimal way to do this would be great!

 

[Memphis]

Thanks for your input.

All of the drives are 7200rpm disks, with 8Mb cache, so no drive is faster than the other. Shouldn't matter then where Windows is.

If one of the disks is partitioned, with Windows on one and games on the other, will that slow read performance? Should the games be on another disk?

 

[Memphis]

Have a goood browse through this forum, there used to be quite a lot of posts on partitions.

I think the general trend used to be to install windows on the C Drive partition , Program Files on the D Drive partition, followed by games on E etc

Thanks, but that wasn't quite what I asked .