How much should i partition for games?

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Hi, im about to partition my pc. I have a 500gb hard disk - how should i partition it?

How much gb for games, music, film, general

for the average person?

Thanks.
 
My steam account takes 42gb

Music and videos are probably each about the same as well. Just 5x 100gb sounds good to me, depends on the OS. Dont forget compression :)
 
silversurfer said:
My steam account takes 42gb

Music and videos are probably each about the same as well. Just 5x 100gb sounds good to me, depends on the OS. Dont forget compression :)
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What do you mean by 'dont forget compression'? Sorry, im new to all this malarkey.
 
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Not so easy to do retrospectively and basically I dont see any drawbacks to it
 
its a bit of an open ended question really. how many games do you have? how many are you likely to want on there at one time ect. i certainly dont need all mine installed at the same time, but its nice and convenient to do so. currently standing at 155gb. so its up to you really lol.
 
Don't mean to hijack this but saves another thread on basically the same subject.

I've got a 400gb coming soon and will be running XP, Ubuntu and maybe Vista if the mood takes me. I'll be using the PC for gaming, mostly with a little work being done on it also. Will also need space reserved for music files.

How should I partition the drive? Also, what file systems should I use for each partition?
 
skippi90 said:
Don't mean to hijack this but saves another thread on basically the same subject.

I've got a 400gb coming soon and will be running XP, Ubuntu and maybe Vista if the mood takes me. I'll be using the PC for gaming, mostly with a little work being done on it also. Will also need space reserved for music files.

How should I partition the drive? Also, what file systems should I use for each partition?
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Don't worry - i'd also like to know what to use to partion the drive.
 
I went to a customers house for annual tune up/renewal of AV etc.

She said PC felt slower lately.

I soon seen all files names were in BLUE Text, this means Compressed (GREEN means Encrypted) and sure enough looking at the HDD Properties TAB I seen she had by error Compressed the full HDD lol.

Lucky she does not have a lot of files (about 16GB) so it did not take long to uncompress.
 
The cpu couldnt cope with uncompressing? If anything it should be faster because there is less time taken to read the file which is the slowest link in the chain of execution


Its not a big thing anyway but overall it adds up to a few gig I find. On something like uncompressed video Ive had 16 gig files compressed on the fly to 1 gig which is usefull because I would have run out of space otherwise



2 quick examples I can give are 2 seperate steam accounts. One is on a compressed drive, one is uncompressed and both are NTFS

The uncompressed steam folder occupies 102% disk space of its actual file size
The compressed folder occupied 76% disk space of the actual file size.

What part in the decompression process will discount the advantages of 26% less data to physically be read from the disk.

Fragmentation of the file structure would matter more either way I think. I dont use permanent anti virus scanning though
 
It's an interesting debate, it is faster to read 100MB of data from the hard disk or is it faster to read 50MB of compressed data from the hard disk and decompress it on the CPU. I'd like to see some benchmarks, although the majority of the data I'd consider compressing is already in highly compressed formats such as MP3, JPEG and H.264.
 
Windows does not attempt to compress its swapfile. There might be some sense to avoiding compression of .dll files though Im not certain why. I uncompressed the dllcache and a couple of other directories as a token gesture :p I could uncompress the windows directory and it'd take another 800mb in gratitude.

Its fast enough for me and the fact I would miss that 800mb and right now probably need to defrag the files is more important

It needs some tedious testing of two separate but identical drives I think

Massive hard drive + regular defrag > compression
 
Why not just get another hard drive :p I got a 200gb hard drive for just games, and then have everything else on another hard drive. Makes sense to me at least :)
 
That all depends and 500GB is nothing. My films come to over 500GB on there own and I've hardly transferred any on. Music 80GB and games only about 10GB. But it will be different for everyone and only you know how much of each you have.
 
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