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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Getback on July 29, 2009, 05:04:22 PM
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Partitoning.
It's 750 gb WD. I was thinking of dividing it into 3 partitions. 1 for each computer and 1 for additional storage. Was primarily going to use it for backups. Not sure exactly what software to use to do this. Although I am sure I would figure it out. I think I have some partition software somewhere that came with another hard drive.
Any suggestions or input would be appreciated.
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I've had the best luck with just using one big partition. It makes cloning the drive fairly easy when going to a new HD or creating a "live" backup drive, and I just park all my data in the "my documents" area so backing up everything I care about is as easy as dragging the my documents folder to the backup destination.
I used to partition everything according to the recommendations of the old unix gurus (typically 4 partitions for boot, applications, swap, and user data) but I never actually saw any tangible benefit of that when using a single drive. If you have multiple drives, then by all means tell windows to point "my documents" to the data drive, and consider moving your swap to another drive as well. But if you're on a single drive, one big partition seems to be as good of a solution as any. I have never had a hard drive failure that would have taken out only one partition on a drive... Either it's all good or it's all bad, and having multiple partitions was just something that took time to administer.
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I'm using it in conjunction with another drive. The drive I keep my applications on. However, what you say rings true.Thanks.
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How big are the primary drives on the other computers?
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How big are the primary drives on the other computers?
320 gb and 250gb
The new one is 750 gb :x
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no matter how big the drive is or how many partitions it is, when its dead its dead.
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Well there you go. If you want to mirror the other drives to this one just make the partitions the same size as each of the other drives and allocate the rest to additional storage.
If you only want to do backups then you can do those to folders. If that were the case I'd probably still split the drive into two equal partitions just to reduce defrag times. One partition for active storage and the other for deep storage/back-ups.
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when it comes to big drives drives now i usually run with raid 1