Windows 7 boot drive size
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you mis understand.
I have 5 1tb drives, and currently i have to have 4 in an array, and one seperate. Sinc eyou make the whole array as bootable. Then, i am only allowed to partition up to 2tb, no matter what i do with using gpt etc since i twould put it over 2TB in size. so I have to have my OS on one drive, leaving me with 900gb of space that isnt in my array
I'd like to be able to have all 5 drives in the array, 100gb for OS, then partition the rest away to films/music/games/work etc but it wont let me
Gradually im thinking more and more of buying an ssd as i rekon i could fit it in somehow behind one of my fan controllers, and ive got 1 sata port free :/
I have 5 1tb drives, and currently i have to have 4 in an array, and one seperate. Sinc eyou make the whole array as bootable. Then, i am only allowed to partition up to 2tb, no matter what i do with using gpt etc since i twould put it over 2TB in size. so I have to have my OS on one drive, leaving me with 900gb of space that isnt in my array
I'd like to be able to have all 5 drives in the array, 100gb for OS, then partition the rest away to films/music/games/work etc but it wont let me
Gradually im thinking more and more of buying an ssd as i rekon i could fit it in somehow behind one of my fan controllers, and ive got 1 sata port free :/
what are you on about partitions destroy the point of it? Its only so I can keep things seperate, I dont tend to access more than one partition at a time, since the majority of it is storage, plus with NCQ it really isnt that bad. I also didnt do it for performance, but for redundancy.
If a drive fails, the lot will be wasted? You heard of RAID 5? I'm not stupid enough to put that many drivs in raid 0
I have like 700gb of games, once installed, and then having copys of all my game dvd's on my pc so i dont ahe to touch the cd's etc takes aup a lot of space, also having installers for everything i use, plus old drivers etc and also driver sets for all the PC's O ahve built for people uses even more space. All my music is on the pc, but thats a negligable amount. Blu Ray rips can quickly accumulate large amounts of space.
so, i have an 800gb games drive, which isnt full, and its also got 100gb os partition on that. I then have 2.72 TB in a RAID 5 array accross 4 drives, and i have around 1TB of that free atm, so no, i dont use it all....yet
If a drive fails, the lot will be wasted? You heard of RAID 5? I'm not stupid enough to put that many drivs in raid 0
I have like 700gb of games, once installed, and then having copys of all my game dvd's on my pc so i dont ahe to touch the cd's etc takes aup a lot of space, also having installers for everything i use, plus old drivers etc and also driver sets for all the PC's O ahve built for people uses even more space. All my music is on the pc, but thats a negligable amount. Blu Ray rips can quickly accumulate large amounts of space.
so, i have an 800gb games drive, which isnt full, and its also got 100gb os partition on that. I then have 2.72 TB in a RAID 5 array accross 4 drives, and i have around 1TB of that free atm, so no, i dont use it all....yet
sorry, been away.
How does it wreck it at all? Its just like having a folder for music, a fodler for games etc.
I could understand if i was using them as if they were seperate drives and putting stuff that would be accessed at the same times on the different partitions, but even then, if it wasnt partitions itd all still be on the array.
I have OS + apps/games on one drive in two partitions
then the rest, which is largely storage, I wont be reading from the array while writing to it, and the only things i would be using on it at the same time - say music while installing something from it, or working on files on it - is largely negligable and still gives me much more performance than a single drive.
Where I work, we partition up our raid arrays, since we have massiver servers running huge arrays and then its just this partition is the main shared network drive, this partition is for this server thats running on that box etc
How does it wreck it at all? Its just like having a folder for music, a fodler for games etc.
I could understand if i was using them as if they were seperate drives and putting stuff that would be accessed at the same times on the different partitions, but even then, if it wasnt partitions itd all still be on the array.
I have OS + apps/games on one drive in two partitions
then the rest, which is largely storage, I wont be reading from the array while writing to it, and the only things i would be using on it at the same time - say music while installing something from it, or working on files on it - is largely negligable and still gives me much more performance than a single drive.
Where I work, we partition up our raid arrays, since we have massiver servers running huge arrays and then its just this partition is the main shared network drive, this partition is for this server thats running on that box etc
Cool, thats the same reason I had 4 drives in my old PC as it would do everything at once.
I now use laptop for anything like torrenting, or my media centre, depending on which is already being used something else, so this pc doesnt get used for more than one thing at a time anymore.
I know about windows on same drive etc, but then again, most people have that with there PC's anyway, so its not a new thing. I fully hadnt clicked onto the fact that it would be like having my windows drive on the same drive as everything else though....god i used to hate that. Still, Im currently thinking I might just get an SSD when win 7 is out and use that for windows to free up the drive i have sat with no backup :/
Thanks for the clarification that I wasnt missing something, just our different needs/wants from the drives.
I now use laptop for anything like torrenting, or my media centre, depending on which is already being used something else, so this pc doesnt get used for more than one thing at a time anymore.
I know about windows on same drive etc, but then again, most people have that with there PC's anyway, so its not a new thing. I fully hadnt clicked onto the fact that it would be like having my windows drive on the same drive as everything else though....god i used to hate that. Still, Im currently thinking I might just get an SSD when win 7 is out and use that for windows to free up the drive i have sat with no backup :/
Thanks for the clarification that I wasnt missing something, just our different needs/wants from the drives.
meh, i just ignore comments like it because im so used people on the internet not understanding. I responded so much as to state what the space was used on, if the person doesnt then understand they obviousl jsut dont understand and i cba to explain.
Plus, MOAR SPACE *** tbh.
I got fed up of running out of space when i had 1.75TB of space, so when i bought this PC, i decided to get more than id need so as to not run out for AGES, and to be able to RAID them all up, rather than buying 1tb at a time, and then in a year buying a 2tb drive and so on and not having the redundancy.
Although I am annoyed that 1.5tb drives came out so soon after, as im already looking at the space and feeling like im running out, but i think thats just because %wise its not that much...even if it is around 1tb lol
Plus, MOAR SPACE *** tbh.
I got fed up of running out of space when i had 1.75TB of space, so when i bought this PC, i decided to get more than id need so as to not run out for AGES, and to be able to RAID them all up, rather than buying 1tb at a time, and then in a year buying a 2tb drive and so on and not having the redundancy.
Although I am annoyed that 1.5tb drives came out so soon after, as im already looking at the space and feeling like im running out, but i think thats just because %wise its not that much...even if it is around 1tb lol