How should I partition a 750GB HDD?

[jazzy639]

Hi

I've read that Windows runs better when it has the first smaller partition as this is on the outer of the drive and hence is faster. Also that everything to do with windows (page file, etc) are located nearish to each other as apposed to being scattered about the whole drive.

How does this sound:

150GB for Windows/Programs/Documents/Music/Pictures
300GB for Videos (DV camera, etc)
300GB for Archives of old data (see below)

I'll use my old 200GB hard drive to take image backups of the windows partition and copy the files already on there to the Archive partition. Daily file backups are done to my external hard drive.

If anyone can suggest a better way then please say!

 

[IAmATeaf]

I personally like to keep my documents/music/pictures off the main system partition so that if the need arises you don't have to copy files around and can just trash the OS partition and do a reinstall. Also I used to keep my partitions around the 200-300 size but always found that I'd run out of space and then be at the mercy of disk partitioning software to shrink and grow so these days I just keep a 50gb partition for the OS and programs and the rest for whatever. For video encoding I added a second drive so that the source and encoded destination are on different drives and now that I'm filling up my partitions I'm looking to add another disk as they are really cheap at the mo.