Partitioning 120GB hard disk - recomendations
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My choice will be: 2 * 30gb for operating systems + software installations 10GB for Backups 10GB for Internet Downloads (samples, eBooks, ...) 40GB for Projects(my projects), Music, Pictures and Movies - a.k.a Storage Drve
Strahil Shorgov
Strahil wrote:
2 * 30gb for operating systems + software installations
Ok - so softwares will be installed on the same drive where operating system is installed. Will it be good if it is installed to other drive ?
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I have a 120GB hard disk and I am planning to partition it. I have to accommodate two OS, XP and possibly Vista. I am willing to keep backups and musics in separate partitions. I would like to have separate partition for my .NET samples and projects. This is what I thought to do 1 - Two partitions with 20GB space for two operating systems 2 - 10GB for samples and projects 3 - 20GB for Music drive 4 - 30GB for Backups 5 - 20GB for software installations any suggestions ?
ForumExpertOnLine wrote:
any suggestions ?
Partitioning actually wastes space, not because of the way partitioning works, but because frankly, you're only going to consume 70-80% of a partition's space, making it unavailable to anything else. I used partition drives, and then I looked at the partitions and realized 20-50% of the disk space was unutilized and yet I was cramped for space because I didn't want to break my rules about what went where! Also, your numbers are way to low. 30GB for backups? Why even put backups on your drive? If the drive dies, the backup dies! Put the backups on a dedicated drive or an external drive 20GB for software? Hah! 20GB for two OS's, one of which might be Vista? I would look seriously at what the requirements are for Vista. And don't forget the overhead of the swap drive for each OS as well, and the rollback space, and so forth. As others have said, 120GB might be ok on a laptop, but do yourself a favor and get a bigger drive and forget partitioning. Marc
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I have a 120GB hard disk and I am planning to partition it. I have to accommodate two OS, XP and possibly Vista. I am willing to keep backups and musics in separate partitions. I would like to have separate partition for my .NET samples and projects. This is what I thought to do 1 - Two partitions with 20GB space for two operating systems 2 - 10GB for samples and projects 3 - 20GB for Music drive 4 - 30GB for Backups 5 - 20GB for software installations any suggestions ?
120GB is a little small to do this, but if you do get a bigger disk, you could set up a separate 8GB partition just for the swap file, so it won't fragment your disk as it grows.
Best wishes, Hans
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I have a 120GB hard disk and I am planning to partition it. I have to accommodate two OS, XP and possibly Vista. I am willing to keep backups and musics in separate partitions. I would like to have separate partition for my .NET samples and projects. This is what I thought to do 1 - Two partitions with 20GB space for two operating systems 2 - 10GB for samples and projects 3 - 20GB for Music drive 4 - 30GB for Backups 5 - 20GB for software installations any suggestions ?
I used to go through partition hard-drives but on the desktop I just use a seperate hard-drive now. A 120GB for the system disk and a 500GB for data. There's also a 500GB external one for cd images, backups etc. The only time I partition drives now is on laptops because I can't have two disks (easily) so it's as it came with 55GB system and 50GB data.
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I have a 120GB hard disk and I am planning to partition it. I have to accommodate two OS, XP and possibly Vista. I am willing to keep backups and musics in separate partitions. I would like to have separate partition for my .NET samples and projects. This is what I thought to do 1 - Two partitions with 20GB space for two operating systems 2 - 10GB for samples and projects 3 - 20GB for Music drive 4 - 30GB for Backups 5 - 20GB for software installations any suggestions ?
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ForumExpertOnLine wrote:
any suggestions ?
Partitioning actually wastes space, not because of the way partitioning works, but because frankly, you're only going to consume 70-80% of a partition's space, making it unavailable to anything else. I used partition drives, and then I looked at the partitions and realized 20-50% of the disk space was unutilized and yet I was cramped for space because I didn't want to break my rules about what went where! Also, your numbers are way to low. 30GB for backups? Why even put backups on your drive? If the drive dies, the backup dies! Put the backups on a dedicated drive or an external drive 20GB for software? Hah! 20GB for two OS's, one of which might be Vista? I would look seriously at what the requirements are for Vista. And don't forget the overhead of the swap drive for each OS as well, and the rollback space, and so forth. As others have said, 120GB might be ok on a laptop, but do yourself a favor and get a bigger drive and forget partitioning. Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
20GB for software? Hah!
Are you telling it is less space ?
Marc Clifton wrote:
I would look seriously at what the requirements are for Vista
I liked that very much, and moreover I am interested with WPF. So thought vista would be good than XP.
Marc Clifton wrote:
because I didn't want to break my rules about what went where!
Could you tell how you organized your system's partitions ? Thanks for replying.
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I have a 120GB hard disk and I am planning to partition it. I have to accommodate two OS, XP and possibly Vista. I am willing to keep backups and musics in separate partitions. I would like to have separate partition for my .NET samples and projects. This is what I thought to do 1 - Two partitions with 20GB space for two operating systems 2 - 10GB for samples and projects 3 - 20GB for Music drive 4 - 30GB for Backups 5 - 20GB for software installations any suggestions ?
I think you should make a bunch of 1gb partitions and then stripe them.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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ForumExpertOnLine wrote:
I have a 120GB hard disk
ForumExpertOnLine wrote:
any suggestions ?
Pony up a few bucks and buy a bigger HD. Seriously... life is too short to play with disks smaller than 500Gb.
Really? I find trouble filling my 300GB drive on my PC. The only way I can fill it is if I start backing up movies on it (each movie taking up 4GB) and my music collection is a mere 3.5GB Although when I make my new pc i'm gonna get two 500GB drives (I'm gonna have to remember to defrag that more often X| )
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-SK Genius
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I have a 120GB hard disk and I am planning to partition it. I have to accommodate two OS, XP and possibly Vista. I am willing to keep backups and musics in separate partitions. I would like to have separate partition for my .NET samples and projects. This is what I thought to do 1 - Two partitions with 20GB space for two operating systems 2 - 10GB for samples and projects 3 - 20GB for Music drive 4 - 30GB for Backups 5 - 20GB for software installations any suggestions ?
ForumExpertOnLine wrote:
any suggestions ?
Win98SE for the first partition, some MicroLinux kernel for the second. Seriously, the basic Vista image with VS2008 (VC only) installed is already at 11GB. with 20G you will run into problems soon. I guess you are limited to this 120G disk, and can't afford another. In that case, I would partition as little as possible, since you will run into limits everywhere. Also, most software won't easily move to another disk, so generally you'll be bette off leaving software installaitons on the OS drive. So I'd recommend 2 partitons, one for XP (30G min), the other for Vista and data. Alternatively, 3 partitions maximum: XP 30G, Vista 40G, rest for data. You WILL run into access rights problems with a shared data drive, but that will teach you ;)
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Strahil wrote:
2 * 30gb for operating systems + software installations
Ok - so softwares will be installed on the same drive where operating system is installed. Will it be good if it is installed to other drive ?
I always install the necessary software into the OS drive. There is no problem to use different drive My current(home) HDD is 250GB 50gb - XP and software 100GB - Starage Drive (folders for Projects, Music, Pictures) 100GB - Internet Downloads and Installation files(*.iso) for software (I hate CDs)
Strahil Shorgov
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I think you should make a bunch of 1gb partitions and then stripe them.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Good idea. If you now add all the disk thrashing that Vista apparently does all the time to keep itself entertained, the disk will probably die within 4 weeks. :)
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I have a 120GB hard disk and I am planning to partition it. I have to accommodate two OS, XP and possibly Vista. I am willing to keep backups and musics in separate partitions. I would like to have separate partition for my .NET samples and projects. This is what I thought to do 1 - Two partitions with 20GB space for two operating systems 2 - 10GB for samples and projects 3 - 20GB for Music drive 4 - 30GB for Backups 5 - 20GB for software installations any suggestions ?
120GB is too small to partition so I would advise against it. I have three partitions on my main computer, but that's because I've got large hard drive and I dual boot between XP and Vista - 100GB for XP, 100GB for Vista and 400GB for everything else including projects, data files, music, movies, photos. If you've only got 120GB do not partition it into 10-20GB partitions, you'll be kicking yourself later when you run out of space on one of your partitions and your tidy little scheme of one partition for projects, one partition for backups one partition for etc etc fails. You'll be forced to store your backups on your project partition, your music on you backup partition and you will never be able to find anything anymore without doing file search.
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Really? I find trouble filling my 300GB drive on my PC. The only way I can fill it is if I start backing up movies on it (each movie taking up 4GB) and my music collection is a mere 3.5GB Although when I make my new pc i'm gonna get two 500GB drives (I'm gonna have to remember to defrag that more often X| )
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-SK Genius
Hmmm... You can fill them easily when using virtual server and trying various images[^] My Sources/ folder is at 8.5G and still building. Switching between different branches, I easily have 3 of these. The VC6 Build PC has one disk image for each branch, so switching is quickly. Throw in some ISO's for Visual Studio express, a lazy mirror for a RAID0 drive, and you are there faster than you want.
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ForumExpertOnLine wrote:
any suggestions ?
Win98SE for the first partition, some MicroLinux kernel for the second. Seriously, the basic Vista image with VS2008 (VC only) installed is already at 11GB. with 20G you will run into problems soon. I guess you are limited to this 120G disk, and can't afford another. In that case, I would partition as little as possible, since you will run into limits everywhere. Also, most software won't easily move to another disk, so generally you'll be bette off leaving software installaitons on the OS drive. So I'd recommend 2 partitons, one for XP (30G min), the other for Vista and data. Alternatively, 3 partitions maximum: XP 30G, Vista 40G, rest for data. You WILL run into access rights problems with a shared data drive, but that will teach you ;)
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighistpeterchen wrote:
3 partitions maximum: XP 30G, Vista 40G, rest for data
Good suggestion. Thanks for that.
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120GB is too small to partition so I would advise against it. I have three partitions on my main computer, but that's because I've got large hard drive and I dual boot between XP and Vista - 100GB for XP, 100GB for Vista and 400GB for everything else including projects, data files, music, movies, photos. If you've only got 120GB do not partition it into 10-20GB partitions, you'll be kicking yourself later when you run out of space on one of your partitions and your tidy little scheme of one partition for projects, one partition for backups one partition for etc etc fails. You'll be forced to store your backups on your project partition, your music on you backup partition and you will never be able to find anything anymore without doing file search.
Thanks. I was thinking 120GB is more than enough :((
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120GB is a little small to do this, but if you do get a bigger disk, you could set up a separate 8GB partition just for the swap file, so it won't fragment your disk as it grows.
Best wishes, Hans
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Hans Dietrich wrote:
you could set up a separate 8GB partition just for the swap file
How this can be done ? I was not knowing the swap files can be kept on a different drive.
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Really? I find trouble filling my 300GB drive on my PC. The only way I can fill it is if I start backing up movies on it (each movie taking up 4GB) and my music collection is a mere 3.5GB Although when I make my new pc i'm gonna get two 500GB drives (I'm gonna have to remember to defrag that more often X| )
My current favourite word is: I'm starting to run out of fav. words!
-SK Genius
SK Genius wrote:
I find trouble filling my 300GB drive on my PC.
hmmmm... 300GB is minimum for me, I can't survive well under that. And 300gb is pushing me to compact everything and minimally access everything and keep minimal tool sets around. I am in the wrong business for small hard-drives. 1Tb is comfortable, though 2Tb gives me some breathing room, I am using a lot of house-cleaning right now to stay under 1Tb. My next machine I want at least 2Tb.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Thanks. I was thinking 120GB is more than enough :((
ForumExpertOnLine wrote:
I was thinking 120GB is more than enough
It all depends on what you do for a living. Large projects, plus satellite imagery data, and huge landscapes for me equals "desperate for hard-drive space." Most people don't have that problem, but you can easily see how what you do directly affects your need for space. My music and photography combined take up less space than my work data. And my photography is in RAW, and the music is high quality format.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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I have a 120GB hard disk and I am planning to partition it. I have to accommodate two OS, XP and possibly Vista. I am willing to keep backups and musics in separate partitions. I would like to have separate partition for my .NET samples and projects. This is what I thought to do 1 - Two partitions with 20GB space for two operating systems 2 - 10GB for samples and projects 3 - 20GB for Music drive 4 - 30GB for Backups 5 - 20GB for software installations any suggestions ?
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SK Genius wrote:
I find trouble filling my 300GB drive on my PC.
hmmmm... 300GB is minimum for me, I can't survive well under that. And 300gb is pushing me to compact everything and minimally access everything and keep minimal tool sets around. I am in the wrong business for small hard-drives. 1Tb is comfortable, though 2Tb gives me some breathing room, I am using a lot of house-cleaning right now to stay under 1Tb. My next machine I want at least 2Tb.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
