Sure Would Appreciate Your Opinions of My NEW BUILD!

[Erez Volach]

I always keep 2 drives. My primary drive is a 37GB Raptor, and I keep
Windows XP and my every day apps on it for speed. I have a separate WD 120
GB SATA drive for backing up my documents and family pictures, and keeping
lots of "stuff".

Man, defragging a 250MB drive sounds like a nightmare!

Bob

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The only reason I can see for keeping a 250GB drive as one partition is for
video capturing / editing. In most cases it is reasonable to make several
partitions for different purposes (apps, games, back ups, iso-cd-images,
file storage (not back up), documents, etc.). Then, defragging need only
done on one partition at a time (and you know which partition changed more
and need defragging), so time of defragging is reduced (according to
partition size. and cluster size)
E.V.

P.S. even my tiny 20GB HD is divided to 2GB system, 512MB swap, ~9GB apps,
~9GB files. defragging C most ofen, and blazing fast. neither apps nor files
partition change all that much... but take less than 50% of 20GB would be
times.