HD Partitions
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When you format your HD, what the size that you let for Windows and for data? I was letting 40Gb for Windows/Program Files and the remainder (120Gb) for data files (my documents/etc). I will purchase a 500Gb HD, then I was thinking about 100Gb for Windows and 400Gb for data. What's your settings?
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When you format your HD, what the size that you let for Windows and for data? I was letting 40Gb for Windows/Program Files and the remainder (120Gb) for data files (my documents/etc). I will purchase a 500Gb HD, then I was thinking about 100Gb for Windows and 400Gb for data. What's your settings?
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If you have both, use the 160GB as the Windows disk, and the 500GB for data.
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When you format your HD, what the size that you let for Windows and for data? I was letting 40Gb for Windows/Program Files and the remainder (120Gb) for data files (my documents/etc). I will purchase a 500Gb HD, then I was thinking about 100Gb for Windows and 400Gb for data. What's your settings?
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When you format your HD, what the size that you let for Windows and for data? I was letting 40Gb for Windows/Program Files and the remainder (120Gb) for data files (my documents/etc). I will purchase a 500Gb HD, then I was thinking about 100Gb for Windows and 400Gb for data. What's your settings?
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I always keep a partition only for windows swap file. I don't know if in this days it still help so much, but in the past was a real system boost. And the two ones you already mentioned.
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I always keep a partition only for windows swap file. I don't know if in this days it still help so much, but in the past was a real system boost. And the two ones you already mentioned.
You'll only benefit if the swap is on a separate physical drive. If you're concurrently loading data and writing to the swap on the same HD you're still going to thrash.
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You'll only benefit if the swap is on a separate physical drive. If you're concurrently loading data and writing to the swap on the same HD you're still going to thrash.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
I used to believe the same thing, and then I read otherwise. While theoretically true, it seems that modern OS's do benefit from a swap on a different drive rather it be physical or illogical.
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When you format your HD, what the size that you let for Windows and for data? I was letting 40Gb for Windows/Program Files and the remainder (120Gb) for data files (my documents/etc). I will purchase a 500Gb HD, then I was thinking about 100Gb for Windows and 400Gb for data. What's your settings?
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For my most of my departments development machines at work I have 50GB for windows XP / applications and the rest for data.
John
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You'll only benefit if the swap is on a separate physical drive. If you're concurrently loading data and writing to the swap on the same HD you're still going to thrash.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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On my home machine with 250GB I set Windows XP to 10GB and the rest of the hdd for program files and data. I used nLite to change the default drive of program files to the d: I don't have many apps installed as the pc is mostly for videos and music.
Do you know some nLite-like program where I can change Program Files folder location after installation?
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I used to believe the same thing, and then I read otherwise. While theoretically true, it seems that modern OS's do benefit from a swap on a different drive rather it be physical or illogical.
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Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
on a different drive rather it be physical or illogical.
Now you should clarify something to me: illogical drives are from apple or are the ones that allow to install vista on them? (sorry) ;P
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When you format your HD, what the size that you let for Windows and for data? I was letting 40Gb for Windows/Program Files and the remainder (120Gb) for data files (my documents/etc). I will purchase a 500Gb HD, then I was thinking about 100Gb for Windows and 400Gb for data. What's your settings?
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I usually have different drives: * At home: - 1xHDD 40Gb for Windows 7. - 2xHDD 80Gb for documents & programs. * At work: - 1xHDD 250Gb for windows vista and programs. - n network drives placed inside our servers in order to store any document. My 2 cents.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
on a different drive rather it be physical or illogical.
Now you should clarify something to me: illogical drives are from apple or are the ones that allow to install vista on them? (sorry) ;P
Joan Murt wrote:
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: on a different drive rather it be physical or illogical. Now you should clarify something to me: illogical drives are from apple or are the ones that allow to install vista on them?
No! illogical drives are Logical drives from Apple!
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When you format your HD, what the size that you let for Windows and for data? I was letting 40Gb for Windows/Program Files and the remainder (120Gb) for data files (my documents/etc). I will purchase a 500Gb HD, then I was thinking about 100Gb for Windows and 400Gb for data. What's your settings?
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I always use separate disks. For the "basic office machines" we configure with one HDD only, the split is 50:50.
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When you format your HD, what the size that you let for Windows and for data? I was letting 40Gb for Windows/Program Files and the remainder (120Gb) for data files (my documents/etc). I will purchase a 500Gb HD, then I was thinking about 100Gb for Windows and 400Gb for data. What's your settings?
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Clickok wrote:
What's your settings?
I stopped partitioning drives when I discovered that I could never accurately estimate the size I would need for the partition. 40G for Windows/Program Files? That sounds woefully small. I just checked--the 64bit Program Files is under 1GB, the x86 Program Files is 14GB. Swap file is another 8GB or so. Hmmm. I suppose 40GB is ok. One thing I think is a good idea is to put the swap file on a separate physical drive. I've noticed performance improvement when doing that. Marc
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You'll only benefit if the swap is on a separate physical drive. If you're concurrently loading data and writing to the swap on the same HD you're still going to thrash.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
dan neely wrote:
You'll only benefit if the swap is on a separate physical drive.
Regardless of same/different drive, the fragmentation will be reduced.
Best wishes, Hans
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Clickok wrote:
What's your settings?
I stopped partitioning drives when I discovered that I could never accurately estimate the size I would need for the partition. 40G for Windows/Program Files? That sounds woefully small. I just checked--the 64bit Program Files is under 1GB, the x86 Program Files is 14GB. Swap file is another 8GB or so. Hmmm. I suppose 40GB is ok. One thing I think is a good idea is to put the swap file on a separate physical drive. I've noticed performance improvement when doing that. Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote:
I stopped partitioning drives when I discovered that I could never accurately estimate the size I would need for the partition. 40G for Windows/Program Files? That sounds woefully small.
Agreed. I went hogwild my last system and did a 4way partition. IIRC OS 20GB, Apps 100GB, Documents 20GB, media 460GB. I forgot that temps and the desktop (aka the midden) were in documents and settings, and spent lots of time shuffling stuff out. :doh: Never again. It was an interesting exercise to see which companies determined paths properly and which were hard coded for C:\Program Files\
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Clickok wrote:
What's your settings?
I stopped partitioning drives when I discovered that I could never accurately estimate the size I would need for the partition. 40G for Windows/Program Files? That sounds woefully small. I just checked--the 64bit Program Files is under 1GB, the x86 Program Files is 14GB. Swap file is another 8GB or so. Hmmm. I suppose 40GB is ok. One thing I think is a good idea is to put the swap file on a separate physical drive. I've noticed performance improvement when doing that. Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote:
I stopped partitioning drives when I discovered that I could never accurately estimate the size I would need for the partition.
I agree, but my reason is that I need reinstall Windows frequently, and I don't have a second physical drive, then for simplicity I prefer separate windows/programs from data.
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dan neely wrote:
You'll only benefit if the swap is on a separate physical drive.
Regardless of same/different drive, the fragmentation will be reduced.
Best wishes, Hans
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Only if you set a page file small enough that it fragments in the 1st place. HDs are cheap enough there's no reason not to specify 3-4x the size of your ram in which case the system becomes unusable first. NTM the fact that there's almost no return from defragmenting segments larger than about 64mb because the transfer time dominates over the seek time.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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When you format your HD, what the size that you let for Windows and for data? I was letting 40Gb for Windows/Program Files and the remainder (120Gb) for data files (my documents/etc). I will purchase a 500Gb HD, then I was thinking about 100Gb for Windows and 400Gb for data. What's your settings?
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i never partition. just buy a 2nd HD - it's safer and cleaner.
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You'll only benefit if the swap is on a separate physical drive. If you're concurrently loading data and writing to the swap on the same HD you're still going to thrash.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall