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Do the people of OcUK partition their harddrives and how do they have their harddrives laid out?

I'll start...

Sammy 250GB - C: (Vista) \ E: (Games)
Sammy 250GB - D: (Downloads) \ F: (Music)
Sammy 500GB - H: (Videos)
Sammy 750GB - K: (Backup)

Am thinking about getting 2 1TB drives, maybe try raid?
Would I see any improvements over my current setup?
Do partitions slow down drives?
 
wont slow down but will get messy adding more hdds...

just buy 2 x 1tb and have 1 for storage and 1 for backup if its needed

other 2 x 1tb for pure storage

i got 3tb storage and 1tb backup important stuff
 
I dont bother with partitions for categories such as games or music. I have a 640GB drive as my OS (well, two in RAID 1), 96GB for windows and games / 500GB for storage. Any additional drives are storage and dont have partitions.
 
Got an older AGP based system so smaller drives.....

C:\ - 125Gb partition - All application and game installs
D:\ - 180Gb partition - Data
E:\ - 160Gb partition - Data backup

C:\ and D:\ are on a Seagate 7200.10 IDE 320Gb and E:\ is an old Maxtor IDE 160Gb drive that was my original C:\

All I would recomend to anybody is keep your data seperate to your application installs. If you need to format or trash your install then you know all data is out of harms way.

Have also got a Buffalo Terrastation that I copy all my data onto every few weeks and then keep that safe and sound out of harms way. Keep a Ghost image of my C:\ on there and also end up backing-up my sisters and in-laws PC onto it as well.

I work in an IT department so I know you can never have enough backups ! ! !
 
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Disk 1: WD 640Gb with 7 partitions(Windows, data, email, music)
Each on it's own partition.
Disk 2: WD 500Gb with 7 partitions(backup of music, data&music)
Each on it's own partition
Disk 3: WD 400Gb with 7 partitons(Pagefile, backups&other)
Each on it's own partition.
Thinking of having only two or three partitions on each.
:eek:
 
I have :

C: Windows (40GB)
D: Applications (100GB)
E: Games (160GB)
F: Files - All user profiles folders are moved from C: to F: (300GB)
Z: Backup drived - this is a sepearate physical drive. (300GB)


I use SyncBackSE to backup the F: drive to Z: drive daily.

Then all drives are backed up to my Second PC on a monthly basis.
 
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Xp64
C:\ 30gb (windows) d:\~600gb (games and temp folders) z:\300mb (drivers)

The I have on media centre pc..
Vista32
C:\ 30gb (windows) d:\~900gb (videos, photos & music) z:\300mb (drivers)


1x 1000gb backup of videos, photos & music
1x 250gb (backup of photos & music)
1x 250gb (backup of photos & music)
5x400gb raid3 ~1500gb backup of media (kept at mum's house)

as you can see, i like to keep copies of my stuff
 
i used to partition everything up, but just can't be bothered these days and have one HUGE partition... life is to short to be anal splitting stuff up into little bits.

system runs RAID 0 big partition for OS and Data (2 * 640gb), then a single 640gb drive for backup combined with external usb for off site storage...

it aint the best way to keep a system fast (as OS aint exclusively in fastest part of drive), or make reinstall easy... but does job fine and is simple and care free ;)


edit: to the guy with over 21 partitions... your just fooling yourself into thinking your making you system better. there really is no advantage in splitting stuff up 'that' much. sure split your OS / Pagefile / Data... but going much beyond this is just pointless and offers zero advantages and only adds confusion.

why having tons of partitions when we have a lovely filesystem with 'folders' / directory tree
 
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Was just considering getting 2 1TB drivers and running them in Raid0 then keep the 750GB for backup, still got 300GB free on it, but I don't back up games and applications, I could backup games onto it as that's only 90GB but would take a long time with the amount of files. It's that or I'll just get 3 1TB
 
here's mine :

2 x 160Gb RAID 1 with Windows and all applications including games
2 x 500Gb RAID 1 With Profile on it with music, pictures, videos etc

1 x 500Gb external USB for backups with the 500Gb RAID 1's using Synctoy.
 
Would it be subject to data lost just because it's bigger or do you mean, the fact that if I had 2TB in raid0 then one of them failed I'd loose a lot of data?
 
bledd. said:
putting 1tb drives in raid0 is sheer lunacy

2x320's yes, but not 2xtb
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not really.. drives are so cheap these days why not, and i'm guessing that as tech marches on smaller drives will vanish in the end.

as long as your backup solution covers the capacity your using

larger drives tend to use the very latest tech and exceed perf of smaller ones ? (I know this not always case but as a rule of thumb)
 
i meant for the sheer size (and ammount that would have to be backed up)

money is better spent on 2x 320's and getting 2x 640's as backups for them
 
ok

generally speaking, it's a bad idea to keep things like photos / music / videos on raid0 btw

you know if one drive fails, you loose everything yes?

making it cheaper to store them on a separate drive
 
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