Hey all!
I'll be building my new rig in a few days now, and have been looking for advice on how best to partition the hard drive. I'll only have 1 drive (500GB Western Digital 5000AAKS) in the system for now, so I can't split things up between physical drives.
From what I've read, I gather that it is worth having separate partitions for the OS (Vista), game installations, the page file, and general storage - is that right? Will this actually have an impact on performance given the fact I'll only be using 1 physical drive, or will it just keep things a bit tidier? Any advice on the actual partition sizes would also be welcome!
Sorry if this should all be obvious to me - I've just never bothered with partitions before so don't know the best way to go about dividing up my HDD space!
I'll be building my new rig in a few days now, and have been looking for advice on how best to partition the hard drive. I'll only have 1 drive (500GB Western Digital 5000AAKS) in the system for now, so I can't split things up between physical drives.
From what I've read, I gather that it is worth having separate partitions for the OS (Vista), game installations, the page file, and general storage - is that right? Will this actually have an impact on performance given the fact I'll only be using 1 physical drive, or will it just keep things a bit tidier? Any advice on the actual partition sizes would also be welcome!
Sorry if this should all be obvious to me - I've just never bothered with partitions before so don't know the best way to go about dividing up my HDD space!
cheers