2 hard drive system: most efficient usage?

crosvs · #1 01-15-2007, 09:45 PM

what is VM?

the drives are both internal SATA/150 hd's:

DRIVE C: 300 GB
DRIVE D: 500 GB

so i'm thinking (now) of doing this:

split C into 50GB and 250GB partitions; the 50 for Vista (the OS and virtual memory pagefile) and the 250 for apps

use D only for data

Thunder22 · #2 01-16-2007, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by crosvs

what is VM?

the drives are both internal SATA/150 hd's:

DRIVE C: 300 GB
DRIVE D: 500 GB

so i'm thinking (now) of doing this:

split C into 50GB and 250GB partitions; the 50 for Vista (the OS and virtual memory pagefile) and the 250 for apps

use D only for data

VM is "virtual machine"... it lets you "carve" your PC into multiple virtual PC's, but I wouldn't do it unless you have a duo core machine and 4GB of RAM. Google VMWare.... gee... i wonder if the company that josh works for owns a VM company? hmmmmmmmmmmm....

the head · #3 01-16-2007, 11:55 AM

I am currently running dual WD 150 raptors setup in RAID 0 using them both as a single 300GB highspeed drive

crosvs · #4 01-16-2007, 02:01 PM

ah yes, i know the term virtual machine -- but never tried working with it.

and yeah, i was thinking of doing raid, but just felt like sticking to this method for now.

in any case, any confirmations on whether my strategy is sound?

So again, my 250 GB will be split into two partitions of 50 and 200 GB. The 50 will be for the OS and pagefile; the 200 will be for apps.

Then the 500GB drive will be used ONLY for data.

How does that sound?

LeMansX5 · #5 01-16-2007, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crosvs

ah yes, i know the term virtual machine -- but never tried working with it.

and yeah, i was thinking of doing raid, but just felt like sticking to this method for now.

in any case, any confirmations on whether my strategy is sound?

So again, my 250 GB will be split into two partitions of 50 and 200 GB. The 50 will be for the OS and pagefile; the 200 will be for apps.

Then the 500GB drive will be used ONLY for data.

How does that sound?

You may want to re-think 50gb if you are planning on Vista + Office 2007 and want to continue with that setup for another 4-5 years.

Thunder22 · #6 01-16-2007, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by LeMansX5

You may want to re-think 50gb if you are planning on Vista + Office 2007 and want to continue with that setup for another 4-5 years.

that's another reason to not split it at all....

Thunder22 · #7 01-16-2007, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crosvs

ah yes, i know the term virtual machine -- but never tried working with it.

and yeah, i was thinking of doing raid, but just felt like sticking to this method for now.

in any case, any confirmations on whether my strategy is sound?

So again, my 250 GB will be split into two partitions of 50 and 200 GB. The 50 will be for the OS and pagefile; the 200 will be for apps.

Then the 500GB drive will be used ONLY for data.

How does that sound?

I don't think you need to split the 250, just leave it whole and use it for OS and Apps. Once it's split it's a PITA in the put back together, and then you have all of your apps sitting on a drive letter other than C which *some* might not like very much (default is always the best way to go in most cases, let the app sit where it wants so that i can find itself and it's components etc. You're not gaining any IO performance by splitting it, the heads are still seeking on the same platters whether it's split or not.

Also leave the 500 whole, no need to split that one either.