I'm sure that there must be a thread about this somewhere here, but I can't find it. I see things about how to partition, why to partition, partitioning with a single drive, and raid setups etc.
Here's my Situation.
I already have computer set up with a 640 GB SATA2 32MB part'd to 100/540 for OS&Programs/Storage.
However I'm looking at getting a new drive probably 1 or 1.5 TB's for storage of multimedia files. I might do something else with the drive, page file and what not, I won't be doing anything that requires a format of my original drive, so let's ignore all that.
So my main question is...
Assuming I was to only use the full 1.5 TB drive for storage of multimedia files, is there any reason to partition it? These are large files that are seldom edited and are written all at once. So they shouldn't be fragmented and the extra file size that may be created by one large partition is just a drop in the bucket.
Is there anything else that I might be missing?
Here's my Situation.
I already have computer set up with a 640 GB SATA2 32MB part'd to 100/540 for OS&Programs/Storage.
However I'm looking at getting a new drive probably 1 or 1.5 TB's for storage of multimedia files. I might do something else with the drive, page file and what not, I won't be doing anything that requires a format of my original drive, so let's ignore all that.
So my main question is...
Assuming I was to only use the full 1.5 TB drive for storage of multimedia files, is there any reason to partition it? These are large files that are seldom edited and are written all at once. So they shouldn't be fragmented and the extra file size that may be created by one large partition is just a drop in the bucket.
Is there anything else that I might be missing?