System Drives And Storage Drives

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1) i installs windows and program on same drive (raptor), and any files i wana store like photos, mp3 downloads of programs and updates etc i have on a storgae drive(fast large capacity drive). i also use a seperate drive for games(raptor).

2) when you install stuff there is allways option to choose were you install it. so just pick other drive. i dont actually use the my documents folder. i have my own folder titles i make up on ma storage drive.

3)i dont have raid personally but there 2 reasons and 2 ways to have raid. reason 1) speed is what most people go for. you can set the 2 drives in raid to work as one one for reading one for writing as result its very fast. 2) you can set the raid as safety instead of speed this way it makes a copy of everything you store on one drive on the second drive so invent of hdd fauilure you still have everything. you cant have both the speed and *** saferty though.
 
well i would say 2 drives is allwas better. you dont have to spend lots on em thogh. raptors are fast but also pricey. samsung spinpoint drives are very reccomended i belive. and are cheaper with only a minor speed loss.
 
36gig may be a little small if your planing on having plenty of games, software and vista you'll run out of space quick. i find 74gb is fine for a main drive. storeage is a case of price/gb vs space in the system. a 320gb seagate is about the best for the price imo :)
 
yeah 36 is small if you want to put ya games on it aswell, as modern games will soon start to fill it up. if i was going for a couple of drives i would go 74gb raptor for system and games and then a larger cheaper drive for everything else. as you were going to use a 250 for everything then sound like the seconmd drive wont need to be that big. maybe a 200 bara 7200.10
 
I have a very very small C: partition for just the OS, utilities, drivers and hardware related stuff, mail files, "documents and settings", and serious apps like ms office. There is loads of space left out of 10GB.

With a utility like driveimage or ghost which takes a sector level compressed backup of a partition I can take a verified backup my system (ie my C: drive) into about 6GB in 30 to 40 minutes. I keep a series of these backups on another drive in my system and archive them off to backing storage (tape in my case - soon to be dvd).

I had a disaster recovery situation situation earlier in the year and had my system (ie my C: drive and OS) back in under an hour.

Data files, and games save directories can be copied to another drive regularly for security or archived to backing storage if really important.

Games can be reinstalled. They take up vast amounts of disk space and I don't think there is a cost effective way of backing them up. I keep my games on a different physical drive to the OS because I think there may be a performance benefit. Not sure though.
 
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