Re: Hard drive/Partition

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sorry so if this hard drive is just one drive, but with this partition thing
would this be okay and what size would you say to have?
Thanks for your time

"JohnB" wrote:

Hard drives are cheap (in the U.S. anyway).... but I wouldn't go with
anything smaller than 40gb.

Having more than one drive is definitely a good idea. Like the other poster
said.... use one for the OS and the other for data.
Sounds like a good PC for the family to me. I'm not sure what you mean by
"is it a new thing". If by "new thing" you mean having more than one drive;
the answer is "No". That's been a good idea for a long time :)

"Niall" <Niall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Okay so is:
1 worth it
2 whats the smallest size hard drive for it
3 is it a new thing and would you have it for a family pc?

Thanks Niall


"JohnB" wrote:

Also.... Microsoft used to suggest putting the page file on a different
drive than the System drive (location of the OS), if another drive was
available - for improved performance.

The logic being; the OS is going to create quite of I/O, and so does the
page file. Keeping them separate would be more efficient, in theory.


"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Niall wrote:
Hi i have just been told about a pc with 3 different hard drives in it
but in one eg "c" for the os and then "d" & "e" for downloads etc to
make
the pc faster and not as easy to crash. Is all this correct and how
good
is it?
Thanks Niall

Your post is a bit confused, but what I think you're saying is that
someone has told you about partitioning. You can partition a hard drive
to
keep some things separate, but the reason is not to make the computer
faster. Depending on the size of the hard drive, many people use two
partitions - one for the operating system (Windows) and programs and a
second partition for data. This makes it easier to reinstall the
operating
system and programs without touching the data. It will not make the
computer faster. However, if you have your operating system and data on
one physical hard drive and that hard drive fails, your data will not
magically survive. You always need to have a backup strategy.

For desktop machines, I like to have two physical hard drives - one for
the operating system and programs and one for the data. Data is also
backed up to DVD-R regularly in that case. Where this isn't possible, I
like to have the two-partition scheme with data backed up to an
external
hard drive and also burned to DVD-R.


Malke
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