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From: dadiOH on 18 Jul 2010 13:28 hmmm wrote: > Robb Scott <none.no-one(a)invalid> wrote in > news:gup4469fhsbq259au3k8pcpilp2k5bubmb(a)4ax.com: > >> E: Music = 620GB >> > > a 620 gb partition?! Have you ever attempted to defrag it? He stores music on it. No point in defraging. IMO, YMMV -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
From: s|b on 18 Jul 2010 14:54 On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:05:57 -0400, Duddits wrote: > I use more than one drive for the following reasons. > > 1. Backups - If the main drive takes a dump the backups are easily > restored to a new drive. Drives do go bad and if it hasn't happened > to you it will. But what if you get struck by lightning? (That is why I also make backups to external drives.) > 2. Swap file - Having your swap file on a separate drive speeds your > drive up. Is there a significant difference? For example, I have 2 GiB RAM (-64 MiB shared video memory) for WinXP Home SP3. > 3. I don't do it but many do - RAID http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID I know it by name and I have vague knowledge about what it does. Same question though: what if you get struck by lightning? -- s|b
From: David H. Lipman on 18 Jul 2010 15:11 From: "s|b" <me(a)privacy.invalid> | On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:27:16 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote: >> Don't partition. It adds nothing. If you want the OS and data on different drives, >> get >> another hard disk instead. | Why would I do that? A second drive costs money and I have enough | gigabytes with one hdd. A second hdd would be a waste of money and space | (that I don't use). So I have partitioned /one/ drive: C: Windows, D: | Data. I save backups on a external hdd (two external hdd's actually). | This suits me just fine. Multi-tasking. As long as the two drives are not in a master-slave relationship the OS can read/write to both drives at the same time. You can not do that with a partitioned drive. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: David H. Lipman on 18 Jul 2010 15:13 From: "s|b" <me(a)privacy.invalid> | On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:05:57 -0400, Duddits wrote: >> I use more than one drive for the following reasons. >> 1. Backups - If the main drive takes a dump the backups are easily >> restored to a new drive. Drives do go bad and if it hasn't happened >> to you it will. | But what if you get struck by lightning? (That is why I also make | backups to external drives.) >> 2. Swap file - Having your swap file on a separate drive speeds your >> drive up. | Is there a significant difference? For example, I have 2 GiB RAM (-64 | MiB shared video memory) for WinXP Home SP3. >> 3. I don't do it but many do - RAID http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID | I know it by name and I have vague knowledge about what it does. Same | question though: what if you get struck by lightning? Actually, yes. If you have two physical drives you can place the IE TIF, other browser caches, TEMP files and Swap File on Drive #2. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: David H. Lipman on 18 Jul 2010 15:53
From: <hmmm> | "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in | news:i1upj40458(a)news6.newsguy.com: >> If you partition a disk into two volumes you still need to defrag Volume >> 1 and Volume 2 which together would take the same time as defragging the >> whole hard disk. | but you won't need to defrag the disk all at once, thereby ensuring that you | can't use the computer for hours. | Another reason for creating at least a partition for your OS and programs is | removing the need to reformat the drive or the danger of losing everything on | the drive if reinstallation is necessary. You just reinstall (or restore an | old backup to the same partition). | Personally, I find it easier to set up my antivirus program scheduler by | partition than I would to have it by files and folders. I have one scan set | up for the OS and programs partition, and several others for the various | partitions on my drive. All those arguments are the same for multiple physical drives except the added performance benefit. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |