Re: Hard drive

A very big thank you to all of you for your help.

You're most welcome, Nial. Glad I could be of help to you.

"HEMI-Powered" wrote:

Hi Jerry
That is exactly what i am trying to say and the combined
power thing is 140
gb is this good enough for the family pc.
Thank you very much Niall

Glad my perspective was helful.

My current PC is running fine for what I use it for, but it
is getting short on HD. With no data I create on C:\, I have
it limited to 35GB, of which less than half is in use. D:\ is
88GB, only 10 free. E:\ is 97GB, 20 free. E:\ is the biggest
because of my very large picture collection both my own and
downloaded. That all adds up 220GB, not all that much more
than you have. Whether that is or is not enough for a
"family" PC obviously depends on what the "family" intends to
do with it. e.g., if E-mail web surfing, some digital
pictures, and other things that aren't terribly large, 140 is
more than enough. But, if one or more people are collecting
MP3, AVI, or movies, you'll burn it up fast. Ditto if you're
collecting large, high res graphics pictures.

Good luck with all of this.


"HEMI-Powered" 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

PCs generally have only 2 HD bays, so your seller may be
talking about one HD with 3 partitions on it, C:\, D:\,
and E:\. This is definitely a good idea, IMO, as it allows
you to separate your data from Windows and your apps.
Thus, chances of a Windows crash or other bad thing taking
your data with it are reduced. Also, it allows you to more
easily organize your data logically and prevent some disk
fragmentation on C:\. Finally, it may let your PC run a
little faster since it doesn't have to flog through all
your data to get to what it wants from Windows or apps.
You can kinda guess that this is exactly how I have my PC
set up.

--
HP, aka Jerry
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