How would you divide your TB hard drive up

SexyGreyFox

SexyGreyFox

SexyGreyFox

Man of Honour
Joined
29 Mar 2003
Posts
57,737
Location
Stoke on Trent
I thought this would be better here since it's about software & files and I've already thought of 50 gig boot drive and 950 gig porn drive.

My current setup is 3 drives partioned thus but I don't really want to have 6 partitions but will go for 4 -
c: 40 gig
d: 40 gig
e: 200 gig
f: 200 gig
g: 200 gig
h: 200 gig

How would you do it and why?
 
Never seen the point of partitioning single drives (well since the days of DOS, and addressing large volumes being an issue).

For me, it would be one 1TB volume.

Actually, no, for me it would have been 4 250GB drives shoved in a RAID 5 array.
 
It depends what you have I would do 3.

OS
Music
Data + films.

paradigm said:
Never seen the point of partitioning single drives (well since the days of DOS, and addressing large volumes being an issue).

For me, it would be one 1TB volume.
Click to expand...

For reinstalling the OS with out messing the entire drive up.
A lot of viruses only seem to attack the os drive. (or at least 7or so years ago)
Keep things tidy.
 
I currently have:

250 - boot drive (split 130/100 roughly)
320 - games drive
320 - Storage
1000 - storage

Looking at adding two new 1TB drives in raid 0 for storage.
 
I've got my 3 500gb drives done as:

50gb C: OS (although this is too small and I really need to increase this)
remaining space F: used as backups and software storage area
500gb D: user profiles/user data/games
500gb E: music and videos
 
I only have two partitions on my 640GB. 40GB for the OS, and all the rest for programs, games, documents and media. Benefit of partitioning is that you can reinstall the OS easily without touching your data. Don't see the point in making more partitions - you'll just end up resizing them as you end up with more of one type of content than you think.
 
I wouldn't, don't see the need for more than 2 partitions on any drive - what's the point when you can just create folders? Two partitions is handy in the event of an OS reinstall as you can just copy all your docs etc off the main partition to the other then reformat it, but four partitions is overkill when you could just split it down into folders on a single larger data partition.

Anyway, in my PC I've got all of my drives in just one partition each:

150GB Raptor - OS
3x1TB - Storage
1x750GB - More Storage
 
Am I right in saying that programs can be installed on another partition from the OS as long as its on the same Hard Drive?
 
You can install programs wherever you like, even on a different drive, and they will generally work fine. But some programs insist on dumping some files on the OS drive even if the main installation is on another. I've found Adobe and Apple software to be bad for this. Annoying as my OS partition is filling up with stuff I don't want on there.
 
I have mine like this......

2x250gb RAID 0 = 50gb OS / Rest for apps/games
500gb = Old TV
500gb = SD Films
1tb = HD Films 1
1tb = HD Films 2 / HD TV 1

So glad hdd's are cheap right now.
 
C: 1TB Samsung (OS/Games/Programs)
D: 1TB Samsung (Downloads)
E: 500GB WD (For Media Streaming around House)
F: 500GB WD (For Media Streaming around House)
G: 320GB WD External (For Backing up important the stuff)
H: 500GB WD (Spare)
 
VaderDSL said:
I have about 200Gb of installed stuff, games galore, apps, and the OS. 320gb may be alittle overkill I admit
Click to expand...

I was forgetting that some of you play games.
The last game I installed was Putt Putt about 20 years ago.

I've gone for :

c: 80 gb
d: 100 gb (download)
e: 410 gb (video based)
d: 410 gb (music based)

Currently copying over now.
 
Lol.
I used to do this when I messed around with DOS and had several installs of that and windows depending on the games, but since XP came around Ive never bothered tbh. Nice fast 300gb Veloci for windows and apps, and 4.2Tb on my server for the files. But they are mounted as seperate drives. Movies, Music, Software, Backups and Downloads. So In a way they are 'seperate' (Albeit on the same storage pool as folders)
 
I'd separate the OS and everything else, but I'd use folders rather than partitions for the rest. On my server, I have and 80Gb disc for windows, and a 4Tb RAID5 array with one partition for everything else - with folders for Music, Video and Movies.

I don't really see the point in making partitions - you'll only either have to change their sizes or move files about when they get full.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom