really not a problem only a opinion of yours

[Sonic_Reducer]

i'm going to buy a wd 250gb sata drive with 16mb cache, i have a 120gb wd caviar edition 8mb cache , i don a little photoshop and video editing and after effects render, i would like to know wich config you guys think is the best , putting my Os and all aplicattions on the 120gb and use the 250gb without any partions for the mp3 collection and document storage and photos and use it also as a scratch for photoshop and put my video also there or should i create a partition for use with photoshop, should i partition or not the 250gb new HD. sorry if i'm bothering you guys....

 

[vulefu]

windows and progs on 120 gb, movies mp3s, games..., on the 250 gb.

I did like that 80gb maxtor windows and software and 200 barracuda the rest.

Very functional thing.(Very)

You dont have bunch of c*r*a*p with windows errors and the rest.

System stays clean 8)

 

[Human1]

I don't know for a fact that that's the best way, but it's what I use too.
C: = system and programs
D: = data
Useful for video editing, too.

 

[Sonic_Reducer]

thankxx guys i was just having a little doubts about doing any partions or not but i guess i'm going to keep it hole

 

[Codesmith]

Personally I like to put my OS on a 20-40 Gb partition on my fastest drive. The rest of the drive become D:

Additional drives get one big partition each.

C: is for installed software only.

D: is for personal/business files and special folders (desktop, my documents, email store folder, mozilla/firefox profiles).

Other files can go anywhere but C:

Keeping C: and D: on the same drive ensures that D: is always going to be there as expected.

Additionally I run regular backups on my OS (True Image) and my Personal Files (Retrospect).

By keeping the OS and Personal Data partitions on HD 1 (C&D) and the backups on HD 2, both drives have to fail at once for me to lose anything important.

(Actually my 2nd hard drive is a RAID 1 array of two WD 400GB RE2's so three hard drives have to fail before I lose more than a days worth of data, or have to reinstall anything)

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I am guessing that the 250 is up to 10 MB/s faster (average read) than the older 120 GB.

So given my backup stragtegy and personal preferences I would put a 20-40 GB OS partition on the 250, partition the rest as D: and keep my personal files and some special folder's there. And use the 120 for backups.

However if the 250 required a reinstall of XP due to the SATA controller, I would probably keep my OS on the 120 until I felt like reinstalling.



Then any other drive gets one big partition.

I think you new 250GB might have about a 10 MB/s faster average read rate than your older 120 GB drive.