Re: XP partition size
From: Michael (afn18721_at_afn.org)
Date: 06/04/04
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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:09:38 -0400
Mmm, I run on an Asus P4C800ED - SATA/Raid ready including the Zalman PSU. I
could do a 2x80GB Sata + 1x160GB Sata in Raid 0,1 for some speed and safety.
But, I want this rig to be quiet!
One/two more drives would make more noise and heat and ad even more noise
from the chasis and CPU fans - even though they run in a Cooler Master -
Wave Master aluminium case. I guess I'll wait till some affordable 3-4 GB
Flash Cards will be available :)
Michael
"Shenan Stanley" <news_helper@hushmail.com> wrote in message
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> Michael wrote:
> > tried that a few times but I really do not have enough time to run
> > regular backups or copy to CD-R or to another HDD - except for some
> > files I really want to keep. Hence, whenever something goes wrong w/
> > XP and I have to reinstall - because it takes less time than
> > 'fishing' for some obscure registry setting or whatnot - it is easier
> > to have XP on its own partition since all the files on the partition
> > would be deleted.
> >
> > I know: Sytem Restore, XP Recovery/ Repair, Disk Image, regular
> > backups and all those tools. In my case, w/ a stand alone, acceptably
> > fast rig (P4
> > 3.0MHz, 1G RAM, RAMDisk, 40xCD-RW... blah blah) it is simply more
> > feasable to clean reinstall OS and programs - it takes about 30 mins
> > for XP SP1 + WUpdate CD.
> >
> > Just as an example, my Nvidia GEForce drivers were updated twice in
> > the last couple of months; that is, four updates (2 from ASUS, 2 from
> > NVidia). I tried all four, of course :), but that leaves some clutter
> > on the HDD. All in all, these are my "good reasons" for partitioning.
> > I could add more: CDRW's are not very reliable, get lost, clutter the
> > desk etc etc.
>
> All decent reasons.. But even better reasons to get a secondary hard drive
> and install it. Put your OS on one drive, its swap file and all your
files
> on the second hard drive.
>
> If the OS drive completely dies, who cares at that point? heh
>
> You might want to buy two 80GB secondary drives, a RAID IDE card to mirror
> the data drive automatically for you to the second 80GB drive then you
would
> have to have all sorts of failures in order to concern yourself.
>
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