partition question

Mightyashy · 16 Apr 2014 at 12:43

Is there any benefit to partitioning storage drives or are you ok leaving them as one big drive? particularly big drives ie. 2/3tb.

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OracIe · 16 Apr 2014 at 12:52

What are you putting on them?
Arguably smaller partitions can be managed better, I.e. if moving to another disk/platform but it depends on the use of the disk.

bledd · 16 Apr 2014 at 15:12

Personally, I don't think there's any point.

Ultimately, you'll just end up needing to resize them (opening up the potential for losing data if there's a power cut during this operation)

Just leave it as one large partition and use folders to separate things.

tipes · 16 Apr 2014 at 18:47

bledd. said:
Personally, I don't think there's any point.

Ultimately, you'll just end up needing to resize them (opening up the potential for losing data if there's a power cut during this operation)

Just leave it as one large partition and use folders to separate things.

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Mightyashy · 18 Apr 2014 at 00:21

OracIe said:
What are you putting on them?
Arguably smaller partitions can be managed better, I.e. if moving to another disk/platform but it depends on the use of the disk.

work, vids, music etc

bledd. said:
Personally, I don't think there's any point.

Ultimately, you'll just end up needing to resize them (opening up the potential for losing data if there's a power cut during this operation)

Just leave it as one large partition and use folders to separate things.

thats what i thought. asked the question after a 3tb drive dying after less than 5 months, didnt partition so making sure I didnt contribute to its death