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I did a lot of thinking before getting PartitionMagic and applying it to my
2 physical HD-s. Now, I guess, I could get to Guiness with the number of my
partitions, which are as follows:
1st Physical HD - Always spinning
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c:\Win98 for running some odd things that do not want to run under w2k.
d:\Win2k, including TS2k and all other *software*. Please note that there
is no data on this drive, only *software*. But then again, I do not run
GlobalServer, only 3rd party eod datafeeds on this machine.
e:\Data I keep all my data here, from all the applications (Outlook files,
PaperPort files, Market Data, Quicken data, audio settings files, etc.).
f:\Works I do all my other work here. All manipulations with large files,
spreadsheets, .doc files, graphics files, html, c++, etc. reside here. This
is the drive that usually needs defrag most badly, so I keep everything that
messes up a drive here.
2nd Physical HD - usually turned off by win2k
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g:\Backup All backup files go there, and are regularly copied to CD-s.
h:\Multimedia for storing .mpg-s, .mp3-s, .avi-s, etc.
I set the configuration up for the following reasons:
1) Frequency of backup for a set of files located on each partition.
2) Frequency of defrag for the files and partitions.
3) Should I ever need to reformat any of the drives, I will not need to
completely rebuild my computer.
It may not be the best way of doing things so any comments would be
interesting.
Ivo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian McVicar [mailto:icm63@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 6:43 PM
> To: William Wood; OmegaList
> Subject: Hardrive Partitions what the benefit ????
>
>
> HI,
>
> My computer has a 20 Gig hardrive with 75% free space on one
> partition, with
> 650 Processor , ram 384. Omega TS2000i and Win2000 are on
> same hard drive
> directory with all my other programs., is c: drive as per
> normal computer set
> up.
>
> In relation to my Hardrive : my research of whats best for
> Ts2000i to run is to
> have at least 5 Gig free on hardrive. But as I have 15 gig
> free would this
> hinder performance as I have too much free space.
>
> QUESTION : What would be and ideal set up for better data
> transfer and WIN2000
> use between HD and RAM for a software performance like Ts2000i.
>
> my guess ....Something like this (all drives NTFS format)
>
> C:\ 8 Gig with Win2000 and all other software
> D:\ 8 Gig with Ts2000i ONLY....
> E:\4 Gig for back ups
>
> All you computer experts a comment would be welcome.
>
> Software to maintain Partitions I would use would be
> PartitionMagic 6.0
> and Diskeeper - to maintain defrag on each partition.
>
> What is benefit of splitting drives to smaller size if any.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian
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