Hard Drive partitions and sizes ???

[angel_dust]

:D Hi All...

Over the last couple of years I have messed around with many hard drive partition setups, but I still haven't found one that I really like.

How many partitions should I set up and what sizes should they be to work the best :confused: ( performance wise ).

I'm running 2 x 200gb Seagate Barracudas 7200.8 in Raid0 with a third as a backup drive in my latest build.

All suggestions welcome...

[NickS]

One for Windows (20G) and one for Applications/Games is how I used to do it... then I reaized it did nothing but annoy me.

[AnjinSan1966]

Howdy!

Well im running 2x80GiB Samsung SATA2 in Raid0 in my old rig.I have it divided in:

Win=15GiB
Prgs=30GiB
Games=40GiB
Storage=35GiB

Rest of my Drives is Backup/storage and such.

[angel_dust]

Cheers for input.

I think I'll give the following a try

35 - 40gb for Windows XP and essential drivers.

350gb for apps and games

Then I'll see what I think after a month or so.

Thanks All....;)

[alfaunits]

Performance wise, splitting a disk into partitions = bad.

[Sanborn]

I used to split my drives up for OS, Apps, Games, Data but honestly its extremely annoying. When I format my new RAID array in a couple weeks I am doing 200GB MP3/Data that is also backuped on an external drive and 400GB for XP Pro/Games/Apps all on one.

Which reminds me, with a RAID configuration do partitions even help to save data? If something gets corrupt in my 400GB portion will it take the 200GB with it?

If that is the case I won't even bother.