badb0y Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 So basically i have 2 HDD in my laptop: one is SSD drive 120 GB dedicated entirely to OS and program files another one is 500GB HDD. So if we leave the SSD as it is (just for OS and programs), How many partitions are best for the 2nd HDD (500 GB)? And how many partitions you have? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsYcHoKiLLa Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 ...on 2 drives, one at 500GB and one at 1.5TB. Also I presume you followed the usual SSd guidelines and turned off hibernation, changed the pagefile to be on your other drive and made sure defrag is off? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595020333 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoffel Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I only have one HD in my laptop. I have a 2 partitions, one for OS and programs, one for all my data. I don't see the point of splitting my data over multiple partitions. At some point you will run out of space on one or the other partition. Just keep it simple and leave the 500GB as one Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595020345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Right now I just have 1 partition per hard drive (3 drives). OS Drive, Music/Downloads drive, Games drive (also has music/downloads backup) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595020433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdot.tk Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595020707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanrock Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I don't see a good reason to have more than one partition per hard drive (at least on Windows). I have two partitions on desktop (two hard drives) and one partition on laptop. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted July 21, 2012 Subscriber² Share Posted July 21, 2012 One partition per installed OS. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeChipshop Member Posted July 21, 2012 Member Share Posted July 21, 2012 One internal drive with 3 Partitions. One for OS, one for personal stuff and media and one for work stuff. One backup hard drive (external) that gets an image dumped to it every couple of days Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021141 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I used to go partition crazy but when I used different drives for different purposes, I just found myself wasting a lot of space. For example, I never filled my games drive. If I were to switch things around a bit so I had less space, I'd eventually run out of space on certain drives. So in the end I fell back to one partition for each physical drive too. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sszecret Veteran Posted July 21, 2012 Veteran Share Posted July 21, 2012 One for each OS, one for my games & programs, one is my external drive (backup and other things I do not wish to lose). I plan on merging partitions F & G, but for now, this is it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021167 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 One, I don't see ANY reason for Partitioning anymore. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisp Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 On a Windows based machine, what comes after :Z? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LogicalApex MVC Posted July 21, 2012 MVC Share Posted July 21, 2012 On 21/07/2012 at 11:35, Crisps said: On a Windows based machine, what comes after :Z? You can connect an unlimited number of drives to Windows, but you can't assign a letter to more than 24 of them (A & B are reserved for floppy drives). Although you wouldn't be able to assign a letter to them you can mount them to a folder and access them that way, much like how you can on Linux. So, in reality you just start using something other than the letters after Z, but I doubt many people run into this issue... On 21/07/2012 at 00:11, PsYcHoKiLLa said: ...on 2 drives, one at 500GB and one at 1.5TB. Also I presume you followed the usual SSd guidelines and turned off hibernation, changed the pagefile to be on your other drive and made sure defrag is off? I understand that the page file could cause excessive writes, but wouldn't you want that on your fastest drive to make the system more responsive? If so, placing it on the slowest drive would hurt performance... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly- Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I have 3 physical drives and 2 partitions. Hardware RAID 0 for Windows on two drives (250 GB), and a 1 TB drive for data. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyX Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 On 21/07/2012 at 11:16, CPressland said: One, I don't see ANY reason for Partitioning anymore. Same, and I?m also on a Mac. Except that I have a 50 GB partition dedicated to Windows 7 (meh. no choice). Back then with Windows XP seven years ago, I had 5 partitions : Windows XP, Games, Applications, Music, Downloads. To sum it up, the more people use partitions, the more space they lose. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 On Windows 7 I typically go one partition per logical drive and mount them into one file system; primary system uses a RAID 1+0 array, the rest are straight up physical drives. My Unix boxes go with a three partition setup. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_vader Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I usualy make a separate partition for the OS, so it's either 1 or 2 partitions per HDD. 1st HDD - 30 GB (Win 7) - 435 GB (Data) 2nd HDD - 111 GB (Data) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noir Angel Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 5 drives, but only one partition on each. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595021439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilcoGamer Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 OK... a little embarrassing! but it was all i could afford with my new pc build! went all out on every other part but the 60gb ssd! Plans to hopefully get a 3tb hard drive next month and another ssd ...maybe 128gb :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595024643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted July 23, 2012 Veteran Share Posted July 23, 2012 right now i just have 4 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595024653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITFiend Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 On 21/07/2012 at 11:41, Frazell Thomas said: (A & B are reserved for floppy drives). This is only half true. A: is reserved, B: is not. Windows doesn't automatically make attempts to utilize B: these days, but you can manually assign it. In Hyper-V and vSphere I normally change the drive letter on my virtual optical drive to B: for my master virtual disk images (templates). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595032129 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted July 25, 2012 Subscriber² Share Posted July 25, 2012 This question keeps popping up, and I still fail to see the interest. You don't know my hard drive capacities, you don't know my computer usage, and yet you want to know how I partition...? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595032133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberg Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 One drive, two partitions. Windows 7 and Windows 8. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595032139 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yowanvista Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 3 drives. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595032163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starbuck84 Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Almost the same setup as OP. A 120GB SSD and a 1TB 2nd HDD. Both contain one partition. No need for partitions anymore, just put it in easy to recognize folders. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1092781-how-many-partitions-do-you-have/#findComment-595032179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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