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I'm assembling my new rig, and I'm gong to have the following HD's:
18 gig SCSI boot drive
120 gig Segate IDE HD
80 gig Maxtor IDE HD

On my current old rig, I have 2 40 gig HD's, with the primary divided into 3 partitions. Not sure if I want to do the same with these new HD's.

So you guy with large HD's and a single partition, is there a performance hit?

The only drive I will be backing up will be the SCSI HD. The 120 and the 80 will be mainly storage and games. Any files lost on these will not be that big of a deal.

Just wanted to see what strategy you guys use with these large HD's, and recommendations.

yes, there is a proformance hit. It isnt a big deal but it's there.

I dont partition mine anymore. I just dont like it.

Greg

I would just use one partition per HDD ... that'll give you 3 partitions, enough to divide stuff on the seperate partitions/HDDs.

Intresting setup.

I had always kept my apps & data on the OS partition. I then had:
A games partition
Download partition
Newsgroups partition
Transfered to CD partition

Seems like a logical setup there FP. Thanks for the tip.

Originally posted by DocSilly
I would just use one partition per HDD ... that'll give you 3 partitions, enough to divide stuff on the seperate partitions/HDDs.

Ditto

That's what I do with mine. Though I have a 160gb partitioned to 40 and 120, 40 for xp and related apps/programs. My 2nd hard drive a 120gb, it as it is. Great for storing things in one place. I've learned it's better and easier. If there is a performance hit, I doubt you'd see it.