| bloodrider wrote: |
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As for how many partitions you should do, that depends entirely on how you'll use it. If it will have an OS, you may do a 20 GB partition to the OS and software (so you can format and reinstall it without loosing any data), then you may do a 60-100 GB partition to permanent data store (like "My Documents" and other files), and the space left may be split (equally or not...) in other 2 partitions, one for games and other for downloads (this 2 partitions should be made so the system's partition don't be fragmented, you'll gain a little boost on performance). This is only a suggestion, you should adapt it to your needs. |
| ocalhoun wrote: |
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All the fancy partitions will only really help if you don't regularly defrag. ... If the various partitions were actually separate drives, you would get a performance boost, but being on the same drive, it wouldn't help all that much. |
, but also, all the "fancy partitions" allows you to lower your drive's effective access time. If you need, I can explain you this or you can "google it" 
| ocalhoun wrote: |
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Putting everything in one large partition will give you more flexibility |
) you'll format your entire drive and all the "half tera worth data", or you'll spend some hours backing up your data to DVD, hopefully before the problem happened
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