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I think you should divide it into 20 (or so) partitions, that way you will have plenty of spares for future needs! 
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I agree with Jorden of course - if you can put the swap on a separate drive without messing up your media streaming, go for it.
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Wow! This received quite a bit of discussion.
I, personally, am a newbie when it comes to fancy partitioning and rearranging HD's for optimum performance. I just have an 18gb partition for my OS and all apps/games. I save the last 2gb for files that I like to keep around so I won't have to scavenge for them when I reinstall the OS. Basically drivers and such.
I don't know anything about defining my own swap space. When I run McAfee Utilities to defrag I do tell it to move the swap file to the front of the disk.
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Whatever Jason smoked, ate or drank, please give me something like that as well!! I haven't been in this thread until now, but he agrees to me
I would've sent for the men in white by now, if it weren't that Jammrock opted that, what you gave me credit for, Jason
And I agree with Jammy. If you have the chance, put a seperate swapfile partition on the OS-drive. Always point the swapfile to that partition, but do make it large enough in case you ever get more memory, in which case you have to enlarge your swapfile. Make it about 1 to 2Gb and you won't fail.
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Greebe,
20 partitions is not enough.
You need:
1 for OS
1 for swapfile
1 for backup storage
1 for each app you run!
Why, a hundered might not be enough!
Is there a limit?
chuck
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Yeah the letters in the alphabet!
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Gurm,
Jammrock...not Jorden. Jorden didn't even posted in this thread until after your comment
All,
I did it! Just for the hell of it I put each IDE device on it's own controller on my new Abit motherboard...thing. Although I have not run any tests yet, I was able to push a 449 MB Ghost image between the 2 drives in 54 seconds. Seems pretty fast to me.
Of course there is a giant cluster of cables inside my case right now...
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Damn, man.
WHAT YOU SAY!?!
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Interesting thread...
Making sure your vcache settings are right for the amount of RAM you run also figure into it. If you've got more than 128MB RAM, you can run up to 25% of your RAM as cache: this can really help disk access.
Another useful tweak for HDDS is read ahead: Windows gives you a little slider that doesn't really tell you how many bytes are read ahead: By setting it to about 2x your HDD onboard buffer (or more) you can also get a little more.
Expanding the Directory Cache is very important with multi-HDD systems or Partitioned Drives: Larger Directory Caches allow the OS to bypass rereading the HDD for the Directories every time a file is called for.
Warning: Plug Ahead...
Cacheman 4.0 is almost ready for general release, and allows you to adjust all of these parameters from a nice, friendly GUI.
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Oh Yes...speaking of Cables:
I've got me Fileserver up and smilin'
5 HDDs (Will be 7 soon)
Intel PIIX4 Controller (1 HDD on each Channel)
Abit HotRod66 Controller (1 HDD on one Channel)
Abit HotRod100 Pro IDE RAID Controller (2 HDDs RAID 0) (4 Removable Drive Bays)
Adaptec 2930U SCSI Adapter (External CD Changer)
IOmega Jaz Drive (Parallel connection)
Cables: LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CABLES. There are no less than 6 ribbon cables snaking about the interior of this damn machine...
I have to order a pair of Rounded UDMA 66/100 Cables just to hook up all four drive bays (That's the reason I'm only running 2 HDDs on the RAID right now), might get a rounded Floppy Cable as well (I run the Floppy at the top of the tower), and the sheer number of ribbon cables running through the center divider of the tower makes access and cooling a real chore.
The drive light panel on this thing looks like an overloaded network hub's indicator lights...
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You heard me! From DOS, i.e. boot disk, I pushed a 449 MB Ghost image in 54 seconds. Crazy I tell you.
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