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| Thread ID: 123029 | 2012-01-29 03:55:00 | Disk Management | bk T (215) | Press F1 |
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| 1256455 | 2012-01-30 22:17:00 | For me if i do it its easy to have the second partition as just data otherwise you could have a ton of files and folders in your c drive. Also easier to see how much space is being taken up. Theres some theory that you can use partitions to get the fastest speed out of the drive. As the fastest parts of the disk are the ones on the outer edge. www.xsibase.com forums.hexus.net |
mrlooneyman (16628) | ||
| 1256456 | 2012-01-30 22:45:00 | For me if i do it its easy to have the second partition as just data otherwise you could have a ton of files and folders in your c drive. Also easier to see how much space is being taken up. Theres some theory that you can use partitions to get the fastest speed out of the drive. As the fastest parts of the disk are the ones on the outer edge. www.xsibase.com forums.hexus.net Theres alot of 'theories' out there that are just nonsense, or just dont make any diff in real world use Just how would you force data to the outer edges of the platters?? Ive split one of my drives in 2 partitions, only as I have too much CRAP :o People like to fiddle & play around with the OS & PC, thats usually the real reason for splitting up drives. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1256457 | 2012-01-30 23:02:00 | You are going to have at least two partitions on a single hard drive if you want to dual boot for example as I do here. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1256458 | 2012-01-31 00:29:00 | As for putting data on the 2nd partition, so you can wipe/reload the C: at will; would you really reload C: without backing up the data partition 1st???. That pretty much makes that argument invalid.??? You would also have to move all the 'user' directories to the 2nd partition as well. Sure that is more convenient, but I prefer my own method where C: is an entirely separate hard drive, so you can remove the data\storage drive(s) and format to your hearts content knowing that Windows cannot do anything stupid like wipe your other drives for no reason or install bootloaders and other hidden files and other crap on them you don't want. (Vista and Win7 love doing this) Also I prefer this because you get better performance. You are going to have at least two partitions on a single hard drive if you want to dual boot for example as I do here. Or have two or more drives, as I do. As for the backup thing, I'm talking about when people split a single hard drive into two partitions then use one partition to back up the other as a general backup solution - which is obviously not a clever idea. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1256459 | 2012-01-31 01:04:00 | I have more than two drives also but as I said a single hard drive would have at least two partitions if you want to dual boot. Mine has four partitions as I boot WinXP and Windows 7 and also have a data partition. I also have a removable drive to backup the other drive and that drive is a mirror of the other drive. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
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