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How many partitions do you have?


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#1 American Mafia

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 00:07

So basically i have 2 HDD in my laptop:

one is SSD drive 120 GB dedicated entirely to OS and program files

another one is 500GB HDD.

So if we leave the SSD as it is (just for OS and programs), How many partitions are best for the 2nd HDD (500 GB)?

And how many partitions you have?


#2 PsYcHoKiLLa

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 00:11

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...on 2 drives, one at 500GB and one at 1.5TB.

Also I presume you followed the usual SSd guidelines and turned off hibernation, changed the pagefile to be on your other drive and made sure defrag is off?

#3 Stoffel

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 00:14

I only have one HD in my laptop.
I have a 2 partitions, one for OS and programs, one for all my data.
I don't see the point of splitting my data over multiple partitions. At some point you will run out of space on one or the other partition.
Just keep it simple and leave the 500GB as one

#4 +ViperAFK

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 00:38

Right now I just have 1 partition per hard drive (3 drives).

OS Drive, Music/Downloads drive, Games drive (also has music/downloads backup)

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 02:47

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#6 deanrock

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 10:16

I don't see a good reason to have more than one partition per hard drive (at least on Windows).

I have two partitions on desktop (two hard drives) and one partition on laptop.

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 10:19

One partition per installed OS.

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 10:23

One internal drive with 3 Partitions.
One for OS, one for personal stuff and media and one for work stuff.

One backup hard drive (external) that gets an image dumped to it every couple of days

#9 Mark

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 11:13

I used to go partition crazy but when I used different drives for different purposes, I just found myself wasting a lot of space. For example, I never filled my games drive. If I were to switch things around a bit so I had less space, I'd eventually run out of space on certain drives. So in the end I fell back to one partition for each physical drive too.

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 11:14

One for each OS, one for my games & programs, one is my external drive (backup and other things I do not wish to lose). I plan on merging partitions F & G, but for now, this is it.

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 11:16

One, I don't see ANY reason for Partitioning anymore.

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 11:35

On a Windows based machine, what comes after :Z?

#13 LogicalApex

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 11:41

View PostCrisps, on 21 July 2012 - 11:35, said:

On a Windows based machine, what comes after :Z?

You can connect an unlimited number of drives to Windows, but you can't assign a letter to more than 24 of them (A & B are reserved for floppy drives). Although you wouldn't be able to assign a letter to them you can mount them to a folder and access them that way, much like how you can on Linux.

So, in reality you just start using something other than the letters after Z, but I doubt many people run into this issue...

View PostPsYcHoKiLLa, on 21 July 2012 - 00:11, said:

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...on 2 drives, one at 500GB and one at 1.5TB.

Also I presume you followed the usual SSd guidelines and turned off hibernation, changed the pagefile to be on your other drive and made sure defrag is off?

I understand that the page file could cause excessive writes, but wouldn't you want that on your fastest drive to make the system more responsive? If so, placing it on the slowest drive would hurt performance...

#14 Olly-

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 11:43

I have 3 physical drives and 2 partitions. Hardware RAID 0 for Windows on two drives (250 GB), and a 1 TB drive for data.

#15 PyX

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 11:53

View PostCPressland, on 21 July 2012 - 11:16, said:

One, I don't see ANY reason for Partitioning anymore.

Same, and I’m also on a Mac. Except that I have a 50 GB partition dedicated to Windows 7 (meh. no choice).

Back then with Windows XP seven years ago, I had 5 partitions : Windows XP, Games, Applications, Music, Downloads.

To sum it up, the more people use partitions, the more space they lose.