How many Files/Folders/GB are on your Hard Drive(s)?

[Wombat]

Nuking my C partition while keeping my all-data D partition has been totally worth it.

[Gurm]

Originally posted by Jammrock
LOL ... that only happens if you don't do it right. It's a whole hell of a lot easier to track 125 GB of data on multiple partitions.

C: - OS and basic apps

c:\windows, c:\program files

D: - Music. Keeps the ever changing library of music away from the rest of the data, as to not quickly fragment the drive(s).

c:\music or c:\mp3

[/b]E: - Video. Very large video files which can break up into lots of little fragments when too much other data is stored on it.[/b]

If you actually use that much video, a separate partition is NOT going to do the trick... at least not for any real manipulation of said video. That's why I have two hard disks. But if it's just some pr0n or music videos...

c:\video

F: - Games.

c:\games

G: - Scratch. Seperate Partition for Photoshop and various other video and photo editors scratch files.

Again, if I did enough work with Photoshop and similar programs, I'd use a separate drive, since ALL the benefits of having it on another drive are LOST when using partitions, because the same drive still has to physically access that data, and zip back and forth between the system swap space and the PS scratch space.

H: - Pagefile.

See above.

Basically, there are lots of good reasons to have a SECOND DRIVE, and no good reasons at all to have more than one partition... unless you run multiple operating systems, or have a lot of static data and frequently nuke your primary partition to reinstall your OS.

I've had C:, D:, and sometimes E: hard disks for as long as I can remember. The last time I had a partition on this machine was... um... err... oh yes when I dual-booted "Memphis" and "NT4 Beta" at the same time.

- Gurm

[Jammrock]

blah, blah, blah, boomstick, yak, yak, yak, yak ...

To each his own. I find it easier and faster to run multiple partitions. I've tested them both many times. If that doesn't float your boat, then sit on another ship.

Jammrock

[DGhost]

personally... i just keep my data files (or anything important) on a dedicated server with rundundant storage that i don't **** around with (internally or with software)...

that way my boxen can be nuked at any time and the only thing i've lost is the time it takes to rebuild it...

-bash-2.05b$ uptime
1:44PM up 143 days, 12:26, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

woulda been up for at least 3 months more but i had to turn it off to move the damn thing.

[Gurm]

I know, I know. I'm just trying to enlighten the unenlightened. I'm not trying to convince you personally, I just don't want someone else setting their machine up that way thinking it's better. It's not - more wear & tear on the drive means shorter lifespan.

- Gurm

[Jon P. Inghram]

I'm using the new Microsoft system where all my software and other valuable, and perhaps comprimising personal information is stored on the centralized MS Windows DCMA/Palladium edition server.

[Nowhere]

Gurm, and what about mine two arguments?

[Sethos]

Personally I like to run multipul partations for several reasons...first I like to have a dule boot system which because I like to keep my OS(s) on one drive makes this possible...also I like the data security of having all my personal files on one HD while I have the OS and other major apps on the main HD. (yes that's two HDs with two partations each...)

~Sethos

[Brian R.]

I only use multiple HDs because they're so cheap. I see no significant advantage one way or another.

[Drizzt]

I ever partition my drives.

They are a lot faster, heavily less stressed and can be kept defragged with ease, so to reduce stress even more.

[High_Jumbllama]

Multiple partitions! Bah! Multiple drives is one good way.

1 for operating systems, 1 for data and 1 old one for swap if you have it extra all running on different channels.

If you have only two channels, you can have two hard drives OS and data on the primary with CD/DVD drives on the secondary.

Oops still high on my 512MB of ram.

[SpiralDragon]

< Drive C:Odin>
Total space in drive: 37.26 GB
Used space: 12.48 GB
Available space: 24.78 GB
NO. of Files: 88,353
NO. Of Folders: 5,141


< Drive D:Oberon >
Total space in drive: 57.25 GB
Used space: 54.22 GB
Available space: 3.03 GB
NO. of Files: 36,865
NO. Of Folders: 3,241
mostly music archive


< Drive E:Sonorous>
Total space in drive: 37.27 GB
Used space: 2.31 GB
Available space: 34.96 GB
NO. of Files: 1,985
NO. Of Folders: 135
For pro sound work

< Drive F:Titan >
Total space in drive: 111.81 GB
Used space: 35.68 GB
Available space: 76.13 GB
NO. of Files: 265
NO. Of Folders: 2
3x40GB RAID 0 system for DV work
only have onproject on it now... had aboyt 9 last month... had to flush them and make room... it was full to the brim

[SpiralDragon]

and i totaly agree with Gurm... partition only if your realy absolutly must for some unavoidable reason.. like multiple OSes... but even then i prefer to keep them on sepert phisical drives

[Marshmallowman]

one very good example why partitioning can work very well.

3 drive, system
first drive is 80 G layed out like so

/: linux system and programs
S: storage
C: system and all normal (windows)programs

T: video scratch partiton
G: games(linux and windoes)

It has linux on 30G parttion
, then a 30G shared fat32 parttion
(which contains utils drivers..etc, best descibed as general storage for linux&windows, no need for speed)
and finally a 20 G windows partition.

Since linux and windows are exclusive to each other, each OS will only ever require a 2/3 head seek, but mostly it will only be 1/3 seek at most

The other 2 drives are RAID 0, which have 2 partition, my video capture/edit partition which takes up the first 50 G of the Hdd, so I know even near then end of the partition it will not being slowing down(to much) and it also has the advantage that it will never have to seek over more than 2/3 of its capacity.

The remaing 30 G of the raid is use for games. They load nice and fast and since I never player games and capture at the same time its not a problem

So I know my mad scheme works, and is defintely faster than if they were single drives....oh and keeping things that fragment your drive separate from your normal stuff is a nice

As long as thing remain mutual exclusive it will work well

[Sethos]

SpiralDragon

I like the names of your HDs

~Sethos