HD Partitions
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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 avoid fragmentation, but you incur long seeks. Fragmentaiton can be avoided by creating a large-enough swap file once (set to "No swap file", reboot, set desired swap file size, reboot. done.). e.g. when you set apart a small partition at the "end" of the disk for the swap file, there will be frequent seeks from one end of the disk to the other. BAD.
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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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and then I read otherwise
Well, I read that I can earn up to $20K a month working two hours a day from home! Performance is so subjective I accept only these things: (1) Reproducable measurement (2) A serious technical explanation that does not run contrary to what I belive :rolleyes: (3) It says "Velociraptor" on the box
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
and then I read otherwise
Well, I read that I can earn up to $20K a month working two hours a day from home! Performance is so subjective I accept only these things: (1) Reproducable measurement (2) A serious technical explanation that does not run contrary to what I belive :rolleyes: (3) It says "Velociraptor" on the box
I agree, in general. However, when I hear or read something like this I ask myself what is the cost of implementing. If it is trivial and presents a low risk I err on the side of the statement. If it goes against common-sense, requires an effort, and presents a risk then I just stay with the status quo. Of course any person here who has written an operating system and hd driver would know immediately. ( I haven't) I wonder if people like that post on CP?
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Sigh! This discussion comes up at least once a month here (not sure how you missed them all) and there are two camps, the old school people who can't seem to wrap their heads around modern technology and advocate all manner of partitioning and the modern enlightened people who would advise that it's just not necessary any more and only paints yourself into a corner down the road. If you want to separate your data make a subdirectory called "Data" and keep your data there. There is no useful reason to partition in this day and age. Look more toward your backup strategy than your partitioning strategy, backup is actually still very relevant even today. :)
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John C wrote:
There is no useful reason to partition in this day and age.
OS usually requires a full disk backup, Data just an XCOPY. OS backup rarely runs in the background, Data backup easily can. Switching a "Data" disk is easier than switching a OS disk. Shadow copies make much more sense for data than for OS and applications. Yes, all solvable problems. But I'd rather not run into them in the first place :)
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Do you know some nLite-like program where I can change Program Files folder location after installation?
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John C wrote:
There is no useful reason to partition in this day and age.
OS usually requires a full disk backup, Data just an XCOPY. OS backup rarely runs in the background, Data backup easily can. Switching a "Data" disk is easier than switching a OS disk. Shadow copies make much more sense for data than for OS and applications. Yes, all solvable problems. But I'd rather not run into them in the first place :)
And then there is fragmentation. Partitions with thousands of small files that change often tend to be highly fragmented. Keeping the OS and data separate will prevent my code from fragmenting my OS updates.
John
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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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Clickok wrote:
What's your settings?
I just create one partition.
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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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It doesn't matter. Eventually Windows will want all of it.
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