How many hard drives do you have?

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Just an interest really , a friend i was talking to has his setup like

C:\ Windows
D:\ Page file
E:\ Applications / games

I was wondering how everyone else on rage has theirs setup and how many drives, me im waiting for another hard drive to put the games on seperatly. But has anybody actually noticed any difference with stuff being on seperate drives instead of on the same one?

I know about page files and defrags , but from your point of view

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http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33882151
 
well hurmmm, i have in mine... 7 HDDS.
4x 150 gb raptors, 2x 750gb SG and a 200gb IDE.

I have a raptors in Raid 5, dual boot XP and Vista. 750s for DLs and General Cwap the 200 as a backup drive.

All my game go on my C. i used to have it like that but each time i formated i still had to install the game due to the REG. so i figure it wasnt worth it tbh.

XX :P lol
 
2*320Gb Seagate 7200.10 in RAID0:
c: 60Gb - OS, all apps, swapfile etc
d: 100Gb - Downloads, small so I remember to back it up!
f: 400Gb - Misc guff, mainly free space.

8*250Gb Hitachi T7K250 in RAID5:
e: 1700Gb - Photos, media etc

1*250Gb Lacie USB
h: 250Gb - backups, regularly sync with all of d: and bits of e: & f:

2*250Gb Hitachi 7K250
currently offsite with backups of parts of e:

Plus umpteen miscellaneous old drives in various states of working order in the cupboard.
 
-Seagate 320GB 7200.10 - C: for Windows and Program files, D: for games and music
-Seagate 200GB 7200.8 - Game/demo installers, TV programs and movies, other assorted downloads and my music rips. Also has my pagefile
-Seagate 120GB 7200.7 - My Documents and my 'desktop' downloads folder that I use for storing stuff until I find a place for it.

All SATA. The 120GB was the first drive I had and, until I bought the 320GB the other week, it was my main Windows drive.
 
Main machine:
C:\ - 138gb boot partition
D:\ - 400gb apps/ games etc.
E:\ - 200gb Train/ Flight Sim.
F:\ - 400gb media drive 1
G:\ - 500gb media drive 2
H:\ - 235gb downloads

(C:\ & H:\ are partitions on a single 400gb disk)

Linux Server:
20gb boot drive
200gb torrents/ work backup drive

Laptop:
120gb main drive

If you want old, I do have a 200mb drive with Win3.11 on it, but I think the PSU in that ones broken.

Too much storage :eek:

-Leezer-
 
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C:\ - 80GB - OS + Apps
D:\ - 160GB - MP3's + Disk Images
E:\ - 160GB - Films + Misc + DSLR Pics

I'm looking into a NAS solution as I'd like to have all my media files stored remotely.
 
rpstewart said:
You win, the oldest I still have is a 2.5Gb Quantum Bigfoot - 4200rpm, 5 1/4" platters. Access time is minutes if not hours!
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I can beat that, 540mb Conner drive stripped from an old 486, it still works but I've got no real use for it now other than as a test drive for Win 9x.

As to the hard drives I currently have/use:
1x 7200.10 250Gb
3x DM9 200Gb although they all appear to be dying independently of each other, the clicking and occasional freeze aren't a good sign. :D I have had them for two and a half years though during which time they functioned perfectly until now. :)
 
C:\ - Windows XP - 250GB Seagate 7200.10
D:\ - Windows Vista - 200GB Samsung
F:\ - Apps\Games - 250GB WD
G:\ - Music - 250GB WD
I:\ - Movies - 320GB Seagate 7200.10
J:\ - Backup - 320GB Seagate 7200.10
 
semi-pro waster said:
I can beat that, 540mb Conner drive stripped from an old 486, it still works but I've got no real use for it now other than as a test drive for Win 9x.

As to the hard drives I currently have/use:
1x 7200.10 250Gb
3x DM9 200Gb although they all appear to be dying independently of each other, the clicking and occasional freeze aren't a good sign. :D I have had them for two and a half years though during which time they functioned perfectly until now. :)
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I have a 20mb Conner drive. :) My mate has a 8mb drive, which is something like 5 1/4" big.
 
I have two internal physical drives:

--Drive1 [120GB] Maxtor
60GB ~ C: System
60GB ~ D: Programs

--Drive2 [120GB] WD
100GB ~ E: Multimedia
20GB ~ F: Server

Then I also have a 250GB external Lacie for backup purposes.
 
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