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How many partitions do you have?

Started by American Mafia, Jul 21 2012 00:07

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#16 Max Norris

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 12:20

On Windows 7 I typically go one partition per logical drive and mount them into one file system; primary system uses a RAID 1+0 array, the rest are straight up physical drives. My Unix boxes go with a three partition setup.

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#17 darth_vader

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 14:35

I usualy make a separate partition for the OS, so it's either 1 or 2 partitions per HDD.

1st HDD
- 30 GB (Win 7)
- 435 GB (Data)
2nd HDD
- 111 GB (Data)

#18 Javik

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 14:48

5 drives, but only one partition on each.

#19 Ian Wilcox

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 00:06

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OK... a little embarrassing! but it was all i could afford with my new pc build! went all out on every other part but the 60gb ssd!

Plans to hopefully get a 3tb hard drive next month and another ssd ...maybe 128gb :)

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 00:07

1, well besides the one windows 7 auto creates which is ony like 100mb.
i think the last time i used a partition was in 2003 when my Sony VAIO auto made them, and i always thought it seemed slow to access them, so i never messed with them again.

i never liked partitions much, i get full drives instead :p

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Posted 23 July 2012 - 00:09

right now i just have 4

#22 Kaedrin

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 08:46

View PostFrazell Thomas, on 21 July 2012 - 11:41, said:

(A & B are reserved for floppy drives).

This is only half true. A: is reserved, B: is not. Windows doesn't automatically make attempts to utilize B: these days, but you can manually assign it. In Hyper-V and vSphere I normally change the drive letter on my virtual optical drive to B: for my master virtual disk images (templates).

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 08:53

This question keeps popping up, and I still fail to see the interest. You don't know my hard drive capacities, you don't know my computer usage, and yet you want to know how I partition...?

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 09:02

One drive, two partitions.
Windows 7 and Windows 8.

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 09:36

3 drives.

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#26 Starbuck84

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 09:48

Almost the same setup as OP. A 120GB SSD and a 1TB 2nd HDD. Both contain one partition. No need for partitions anymore, just put it in easy to recognize folders.

#27 metro2012

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 09:50

making more than one partition is dumb now adays.

the only thing i see it is when you are running more than one os.
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