Partitioning for Performance

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Hello Everyone,

I have 3 hard disks and I am putting together a new computer.
The first hard disk is a brand new SATA 300GB 16meg cache and
NCQ. The other two are 250 MB 8 Meg cache IDE's.

Would it be best to keep my system files on the new SATA drive
and only hae the primary partition? Or should I make 2
partitions on the new SATA drive? One 8GB (for system file) and
the rest for storage and games?

Also should the games folder be on separate drives then the
system drive to potentially increase performance? Please Advise!
If there is a better way I would love to hear about it!

Thank You!
John
 
John said:
I have 3 hard disks and I am putting together a new computer.
The first hard disk is a brand new SATA 300GB 16meg cache and
NCQ. The other two are 250 MB 8 Meg cache IDE's.

Would it be best to keep my system files on the new SATA drive
and only hae the primary partition? Or should I make 2
partitions on the new SATA drive? One 8GB (for system file) and
the rest for storage and games?

Also should the games folder be on separate drives then the
system drive to potentially increase performance? Please Advise!
If there is a better way I would love to hear about it!
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I would partition the SATA into a 16-20 GB boot partition, and the rest as
you want. Put the OS and those apps that won't install anywhere else on the
boot partition, the rest on the next partition on this HD.

Then I would create a partition for the pagefile on one of the other HDs,
just as large as you want the pagefile. Use the remainder for data or
backup.

Use the 3rd HD for data and games.

I'm sure there will be other opinions on the best way to do it, but this is
one way that should work well.
 
I use to do that, make a bunch of partitons, etc., but I'm not sure it's
worth the effort anymore. But then again, I burn to cd anything I really
want to keep.
I kept the page file partiton small, about 600 megs.
 
John Weiss said:
I would partition the SATA into a 16-20 GB boot partition, and the rest as
you want. Put the OS and those apps that won't install anywhere else on
the boot partition, the rest on the next partition on this HD.

Then I would create a partition for the pagefile on one of the other HDs,
just as large as you want the pagefile. Use the remainder for data or
backup.

Use the 3rd HD for data and games.

I'm sure there will be other opinions on the best way to do it, but this
is one way that should work well.
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