how do you partition your hard drives?


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i was lazy and iddn't want to do th emath to partition my boot hdd when i first installed windows on this pc, and i haven't felt the need to do partitions on it yet.

i basically have everything but wow on my 1.5 tb hdd, and wow on my 60gb ssd. i think the next game to go on the ssd will be swtor.

my old pc's single 250gb hdd was partitioned into rough 3rds:

windows +docs

games

fraps and misc extra stuff.

i always kept running out of data on my windows parition and my other two were almost always empty or half full at most.

now i collect allot of funny pics and stuff and otherwise don't worry about how many games i have installed.

lol by the time swtor comes out you will have a 50tb ssd drive for it.

lol by the time swtor comes out you will have a 50tb ssd drive for it.

i expect it sometime this year. maybe not the projected spring release date but maybe at the end of summer. who knows. it's either that or gw2 or tera, neither of which have firm release dates either.

this thread is making me want to partition off windows for future reinstalls. :unsure:

Some of you have to be kidding/photoshopped.....

5 Drives:

1: System drive: Could give a rats ass about it

2: RAID5 (4 drives). Everything data related.

I have to upgrade the RAID5 and problably 2 of those from the old RAID5 will make a RAID0 in the system drive.

I prefer not to, and recommend my clients don't either.

Partitioning gives a somewhat false sense of security in thinking that if a drive fails, somehow the second partition won't be affected.

I rely on a main OS drive, and a data drive (I now have 2 in mirrored raid).

This is the usual way I configure clients machines and i've never had any complaints.

The only time I do it is when someone wants to be cheap and not purchase a second drive (and really, with prices thesedays that's a very poor excuse - no pun intended).

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Almost everything from D: is moving to I: and J: once I get them all sorted out.

C: is obviously my boot drive, this partition will also be shrunk in the future for my Ubuntu install.

E: has most if not all the installed programs I used separated by category.

F: is for various projects past, present and future.

Now I: and J: reside on a 1TB HDD (Theres actually some unpartitioned space on this drive too...)

C: is on a 320GB drive.

D: and F: are on a 500GB drive

and E: is on a 320GB drive.

I'm also going to be converting all the drives to GPT instead of MBR partition tables. 2 of the drives are already GPT while 2 are still MBR...

I prefer not to, and recommend my clients don't either.

Partitioning gives a somewhat false sense of security in thinking that if a drive fails, somehow the second partition won't be affected.

I rely on a main OS drive, and a data drive (I now have 2 in mirrored raid).

This is the usual way I configure clients machines and i've never had any complaints.

The only time I do it is when someone wants to be cheap and not purchase a second drive (and really, with prices thesedays that's a very poor excuse - no pun intended).

Some people like to keep their operating system and personal files separate and using 500/1000/1500/2000 GB drives just for the operating system is overkill.

Having said that you can always mirror two drives so either way your system is safe from a single drive failure

I have an SSD for Windows

I had a 200GB HDD for Programs, that recently failed so I have a 640 GB hdd paritioned with 205 GB for programs, and 390GB for Movies.

I have a 640GB HDD for TV shows

I have a 160GB HDD for Install Files

I have 160GB HDD for User Profiles

and a 250GB external which I use to swap between the dekstop and laptop

Doesn't seem funny to me.

D = Drive

P = partition

Backup D1P1 onto D2P2

Backup D2P1 onto D1P2

:whistle:

Does seem funny to me because the way he has said it implies his using one partition for regular use and the other partition for backups and both partitions are on the same physical hard drive.

First of all storing your backup drive inside the computer of the main computer = silly. One PSU failuer and you could potentially lose it all.

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