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Title: Hard drives & partitions
Post by: mans on Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 03:56:34 AM
2 x 1TB drives = never have to uninstall anything
Title: Re: Hard drives & partitions
Post by: Knight on Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 06:20:30 AM
2 x 1TB drives = never have to uninstall anything

I bet defragging is a b*tch :)
Title: Re: Hard drives & partitions
Post by: Spanky on Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 14:31:15 PM
2 x 1TB drives = never have to uninstall anything

Yea, that would suck for a OS drive. I don't HAVE to uninstall it but if I'm not going to use it, it's just taking up space and makes other files slower. Using a partition at the beginning of the drive, say 250GB or so for the OS and programs and then a partition for the rest of the files is best for speed.
Title: Re: Hard drives & partitions
Post by: [Nifty]-mister on Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 15:59:32 PM
haha and no assist allowed, so racing lines off, damage on full and all driver assists off :D

on a nice windy, wet track

   i can see a nice car smash!!!
Title: Re: Hard drives & partitions
Post by: Spanky on Thursday, October 28, 2010, 00:08:01 AM
I have another 160GB drive that serves as my os drive.

So you install programs on 2 1TB drives? Last time I did that, I had a bunch of problems with applications thinking they were on C: and really not. I haven't tried that since.
Title: Re: Hard drives & partitions
Post by: Spanky on Thursday, October 28, 2010, 05:07:23 AM
To each their own. I prefer to keep things simple but that's just me.
Title: Re: Hard drives & partitions
Post by: Alex on Thursday, October 28, 2010, 07:05:18 AM
Why anyone would need 2TB to store applications on is beyond me. I am fine with my 500GB HDD storing everything.
Title: Re: Hard drives & partitions
Post by: Spanky on Thursday, October 28, 2010, 14:38:35 PM
Why anyone would need 2TB to store applications on is beyond me. I am fine with my 500GB HDD storing everything.
While I agree, he did say that it's split up and not all of it is for applications. I have a 210GB partition for OS and applications and right now only have 23.2GB free on it. I keep it really clean and defragmented frequently. I could use more space but with 2x500GB hard drives and a 255GB partition for temporary and junk files (Dropbox, Dreamweaver, Virtual Machines, Fraps, etc..) there's not much space. I desperately need to upgrade as these hard drives are a couple years old, cycled every day and were originally purchased used on eBay. I can't help but think they're gonna die soon.

Anyway, outside of that, on my server I have 1610GB of disk space spread across 4 hard drives (that's real, not what the labels say) that store my backup, temporary downloads, installation files (game ISO's), home pictures and videos, television and movies, etc.. I could use more but I still have free space so it's not a top priority on the "to buy" list.

I'm going to split this thread.

*EDIT*
Funny that I mention the above bold sentence. While typing this whole thing I was fighting system freezing every 30 seconds or so. The display driver crashed twice (gotta love Windows 7 for recovering it). Then a BSOD came. Hopefully this isn't a hint at what's coming...