System HD setup

shipinabottle

shipinabottle

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hey guys, im thinking about purchasing a Samsung F1 1TB HDD today, i currently have a Samsung HD161HJ but im finding that it really isn't enough room as im a heavy downloader.

how would i set these up, 160gb for OS? or would it be wiser to have the 1TB with the operating system on?

also this is something thats crossed my mind, if i have my data documents, movies etc on a seperate drive from my OS and software would my computer run more smoothly when extracting files on the 2nd HDD as the OS system drive would be freed up for OS? even tho i have a q6600 i still find unraring files will make my system a little sluggish. (sorry if that makes no sense, difficult to symplify)
 
Personally i'd have about 60GB for the OS and the rest for what you download.

That way if you OS were to die, you can simply reinstall from a backup and all your data would still be there.

The way i've set mine up is:

60GB For Vista.
100GB Game installs
250GB Music
500GB TV shows
500GB Downloads
250GB Photos

Or something like that.

That's over a few drives.

If you partition one drive into lots of little ones, you lose quite a bit of capacity. :(
 
i dont think i need to partition it that much. id rather avoid partitioning, considering the 1TB will be more than enough to hold the data ill want it too. so the 160gb would house the OS and games/software installs. what would be the benefit of partitioning the 160gb?
 
Easy answer: keep your 160GB drive for your main drive (OS and games installed) - don't change it at all. Add a 1TB drive as your second drive. Just one partition (logical drive, e.g. D: drive) is fine. Make your folders on that drive (D:\music D:\movies D:\TV recordings etc.). 1TB is plenty for days / weeks worth of movie recordings / TV / music etc.

Regarding the speed of extracting files...

If you have 1 hard disk with your OS, applications and all your movies on (C: drive) - when you extract a large .rar file to the same hard drive (e.g. C:\myfile.rar to C:\myfiles) it will slow down your Windows performance. i.e. loading applications at the same time will be painful.

Adding a new, second drive (D: drive) - if you extract d:\myfile.rar file to d:\myfiles, it won't interfere when you start applications on your 'OS' or programs drive. So your system performance will be much better overall.

It will depend on your HDD/motherboard configuration, but from what you've said so far, just adding a second drive will give you a fast and large new data store.
 
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