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Partitioning my 8600

post #1 of 13
2/12/04 at 2:13pm
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Hello!

I think i've just done something very silly. I've formatted and partitioned my drive into two. C drive at 10 gb and D drive at the remainder, i have a 60gb 7200rpm hard drive. I'm finding the 10gig partition on my C drive to be too small already while there is significant improvement in overall performance. Just wonerding, what do you think is a good ratio? I play a lot of games, hence the big D drive.

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post #2 of 13
2/12/04 at 3:42pm
30 Gig minimum for gamers. Oddly th eperformance should be degraded not improved due 2 having 2 filing tables.
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post #3 of 13
2/12/04 at 7:09pm
Hello,


I'm not sure about that; could you explain it further down?

I thought It's faster to use different partitions because of the fragmentations:
I can easily keep both of them nice and tidy whereas a single partition would start -after a while- to fragment work and games together making everything slower to find on the disk'surface and hence to load.


I was planning to split the 80gb disk into 2 partitions:
40gb games and 40gb work.



Hope it's clear enogh as it's hard to translate in english
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post #4 of 13
2/12/04 at 8:26pm
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I think its faster because now my computer doesn't have to go through each and everyone file while booting up and shutting down. The start up and shut downs seem to have got a lot faster after partioning. Actually, there is no doubt that they have.

Rao.
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post #5 of 13
2/12/04 at 9:02pm
The only real benefit is control of the Files going somewhere. Splitting a drive is especially a drag since windows doesnt exactly organize the hardrive when splitting the partitions. you would have fragments of 2 partiotions scattered all over the disk.
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post #6 of 13
2/13/04 at 6:24am
uao
didn't know it.
I'll then just make a huge 80gb ntfs partition!!!!!!

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post #7 of 13
2/13/04 at 7:59am
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DM, I agree with you. But why is my system noticeably faster? COuld it be that a friend of mine tweaked virtual memory a bit for me after the partition? Or is it because i removed all the Dell stuff that came with it?
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post #8 of 13
2/13/04 at 2:25pm
Combination of VM settings, Removing crap and a defrag on large drives is always welcome
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post #9 of 13
2/13/04 at 5:26pm
I can't help thinking of this:

imagine this scenario:
80gb, one single ntfs partition.
You install several softwares, then you work on a video project having a 10gb folder full of tga sequences and avi's files.
Then you install other softwares, some games.
Now you happily finish the project, and delete the 10gb folder.
You install some games as well, going to fill part of the old projects position on disk (I suppose).
As you see you have a nice fragmented disk now.
I'm wondering if running defrag would reposition all the files in a logical order (files on a games all close together while files of other softwares close together somewhere else on the surface of the disk).

is this the actual way it works?

I've also been told now that making 2 partitions it doesn't really split the hardisk into two. Instead, it'll still write files randomly all over disk.........



cheers
Luca
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post #10 of 13
2/13/04 at 5:48pm
Might i suggest FAT32 Partition? huge improvements in speed for a slight stability decrease
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post #11 of 13
2/14/04 at 12:12pm
I'd rather stick to ntfs.

Because of the amount of large files I'm dealing with, I'm just wondering if it's still faster to keep 1 80gb ntfs partition or split it into 2.
Because (and correct me if I'm wrong) defrag automaticly rearrange the data on disk to keep files close each other I might stick to one single partition.

cheers
Luca
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post #12 of 13
2/14/04 at 11:11pm
I completely disagree with you Dell-Machina.

As far as I know the performance increases if you make the C drive partition as small as possible... thus 6 gb should be enough for the os and the main apps.

If you splitt up the hard drive, the speed of the first part (C) is faster than the rest b/c of faster cluster management. The smaller the virtual C hd the faster... this does not mean that a 5 gb hd is fater than a 60 gb hd... just if u splitt up the 60 gb hd virtually...

Furthermore, alsways use C to install os on and never another partition.
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post #13 of 13
2/15/04 at 12:37am
Here is some info that should help:

http://faq.storagereview.com/tiki-in...ionSingleDrive

http://faq.storagereview.com/
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