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Oilybohunk   05-29-2002 at 12:45:58 AM

I installing a second drive to run Raid 0, and I'm about to format my drives. What is the best partition set up?

I've generally run C: for the OS, D: for Program Files, and E: for data. Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

JCC

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OldBear   05-29-2002 at 06:54:52 AM
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It is really a personal preference. There are good reasons for having partitions just the way you
suggest. One reason is if you have the OS crash, you can reformat C: without harming your data.
I personaly use one large partition for the type of work I do. Your way looks fine so go for it.

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grumeza   05-29-2002 at 08:23:44 AM
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Normally, if u will Have FAT32 partitions, I would recomend partitions of 8-10 Giga.
This way you reduce the fragmentation, and use/whear of heads. But for video capture and for some other kinds of tasks you need big partitions.
From the machines at work , I observed that ones with big partitions are getting slower much faster becose of fragmentation. And in case that u use 98 , 95 or ME u get more instability (personal experience, from 300 runing machines).
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kief   05-31-2002 at 01:38:08 AM
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NTFS has none of the problems mentioned, so it may be a choice based on file system. I myself like 2 partitions on mst machines I work with, but as pointed out this is 99% a preference issue!

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ZeuSueZ   05-31-2002 at 10:36:20 AM
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Hi.

Sounds like a pretty good idea - but u might wanna connect a spare drive (another HDD) to frequently dump a work backup on, so if/when - depends on wether ur optimist or pessimiest - ur HDD's crash, u have a relativly new work backup (IMHO)

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Oilybohunk   05-31-2002 at 05:36:04 PM
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I agree complete. If there is one thing I have an abundance of, it's hard drives. This question refers to configuring two 80 GB Seagate drives for raid 0. I'm running a 20 GB IBM drives for swap files and to store backups and a 6 GB (I don't remember the manufacture) drive encrypted with PGP for confidential information. I back up the 20 GB drive to my laptop and 6 GB drive to a couple of Jaz 2 drives.

Unfortunately even with all these backups, I just learned the hard way about the importance of manually backing up information. My laptop died, and I had to send it in for repair. HP replaced the motherboard and did a clean install on the hard drive (one copy gone). Prior to the current rebuild, I was running only one 80 GB Seagate drive. It failed, and I could not access information (two copies gone). While trying to rebuild the system, I ran FDISK to partition the drive. Unfortunately before partitioning the drive, I knocked a cable loose from the Seagate. Instead of running FDISK on the blank drive, I ran it on my back up data drive (three copies gone). Luckily, EasyRecovery was able to restore the majority of lost information, but I did lose some critical info. To add insult to injury, one of my Jaz drives took a dump, but my encrypted drive stayed intact.

I've now switched to running the two 80 GB drives as mirrors of each other, and my CDR supplier is selling a lot more blanks.


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