Ideas on partitioning are welcome

ntg

ntg

ntg

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Alright,

As per my other post on the problem I had with my hard drive, as I feared it might be dying I ordered a new 1.5TB drive.

So now I'll have 3 drives, 2x1TB and 1x1.5TB.

How would you partition them?

Keep in mind that I definitely need the following partitions:

System partition, for the OS and programme installations only
Work partition, for my personal files, photos and uni/work staff
Pagefile partition, only for the pagefile in a separate disk from the OS

I am also thinking of setting up some backup system (at the moment I use Acronis which backed up my work partition to the 2nd hard drive) so that has to be included.

Ideas/Suggestions welcome!
 
Thank you for the reply,

Your suggestions seem very reasonable. I am not a heavy user per se, but I download quite a lot of stuff so I like to have lots of space. My only real requirement is to figure out an effective backup strategy. At the moment I am thinking of nightly backups of my 'important stuff' from one disk to another - so that should sort out any issues.
 
What would be the best way to create a mirror image of my OS partition to another disk (once I have set it up), so in case I want to reformat my drive I just copy the mirror partition on the original OS partition and everything is hanky-dorry again?

Acronis?
 
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