Re: Do I need to partition?

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From: Bob Dietz (rbdietz_1999_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:24:56 -0600

Neptoone wrote:
> Alex,
>
> Thanks for the information, wow that is quite a site, but I'm wondering why you said that dividing my HD four ways with 40GB is not a good arbitrary number

Because it's arbitrary. Why not 3 x 53.33Gb or 5 x 32Gb.

You have the empty shell of a building. When you partion it, you're
putting in walls - creating rooms. It's probably not a great floor plan
if the livingroom and the broom closet are both the same size.

You put the page file on a separte partion so it won't get fragmented.
You put temp folder on another partion, 'cause just the frequent
creation and deletion of temp files accelerates fragmentation. You put
static data that you only access infrequenctly ( clip-art, digital
photos ...) on a partion on the inner tracks of the HD 'cause that's the
slowest part of the HD. ( But a whole lot faster than CD or DVD ). How
big any partion should be depends on the amount of stuff you expect to
have to put there.

Bob