Partitioning 120GB hard disk - recomendations
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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| )
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
He just told you he recommends against it as would most experienced members here who have said the same thing in the past when this question comes up as it often does in this message board. Why would you want to disregard the experience of someone like Marc and ask him how he used to do what he now recommends you don't do?
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I think you should make a bunch of 1gb partitions and then stripe them.
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You're going to need a lot of 300GB velociraptors to get that much space.
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dan neely wrote:
You're going to need a lot of 300GB velociraptors to get that much space.
actually I was thinking a velociraptor for boot, and two or more 1Tb Sata's. My work computer still has the raptor boot and two raids, one 4x750gb SATA and one 4x240gb SCSI
_________________________ 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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dan neely wrote:
You're going to need a lot of 300GB velociraptors to get that much space.
actually I was thinking a velociraptor for boot, and two or more 1Tb Sata's. My work computer still has the raptor boot and two raids, one 4x750gb SATA and one 4x240gb SCSI
_________________________ 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."
IF you're going for cheaper bulk data storage the WD640s should at least be given a look. They've got about the same bag for the buck as the 1TBs while being significantly faster. Real world benchmarks are ~= to the old raptor 150.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
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IF you're going for cheaper bulk data storage the WD640s should at least be given a look. They've got about the same bag for the buck as the 1TBs while being significantly faster. Real world benchmarks are ~= to the old raptor 150.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
dan neely wrote:
IF you're going for cheaper bulk data storage the WD640s should at least be given a look.
It's an idea... I will take a look at how 4x640 looks on the budget. :) SWMBO makes the ultimate decision. ;) This is for home, not work. We didn't upgrade at home and got laptops, now we are talking upgrade again for later this year.
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