Two HDD's - best configuration?

Father Ted · 16 May 2007 at 08:33

Right I have two 250GB HDD's installed in my system.
Wondering what the best way to configure them for speed and reliability is.
Currently the Windows drive is just one large partition and contains Windows and my data, the other drive is partitioned into a 50GB drive for data backup and a 180GB drive for apps.
Could I organise it better?

Sinny · 16 May 2007 at 10:16

what do you want, Security? Speed? Space?

jbloggs · 16 May 2007 at 10:22

The Windows HDD I would make a partition of say 30GB for your OS install, and use the larger partition one to move My Documents too/storage, game install, etc.

The 2nd HDD I would leave as it is (unpartitioned), and simply make individual folders on it for your different data storages, ie Music, Vidoes etc, as a folder is a type of partition anyway, as it compartmentilizes data.

Father Ted · 16 May 2007 at 10:53

Sinny said:
what do you want, Security? Speed? Space?

Space isn't an issue, ideally data security is the most important aspect - my wife's degree course work to be precise. Data backed up to the second hard disk with occasional backups to CD should be good enough?
Also is their any advantage to having windows and apps on differnet drives - balance the load so to speak.

Sinny · 16 May 2007 at 11:49

Father Ted said:
Space isn't an issue, ideally data security is the most important aspect - my wife's degree course work to be precise. Data backed up to the second hard disk with occasional backups to CD should be good enough?
Also is their any advantage to having windows and apps on differnet drives - balance the load so to speak.

If its just coursework (i know it can be very important) keep it backed up to a usb pen drive and keep the file zipped and another copy unzipped on both hard drives, no need for a RAID to be perfectly honest, alternatly you can hire some offsite storage which is cheap now days, specially if it is below 50mb.