Morning all,
Just had a 1tb Samsung Spinpoint delivered for my media PC.
Unfortunately, mobo, ram, cpu not arrived yet. On the plus side, this gives me opportunity to think about how I'm going to set the drive up.
It's going to be the only hard drive in there, and I'm guessing I should partition.
I was thinking of splitting it up like this. Would be grateful for any comments
Sizes:
System: 50 gb
Music: 50gb
Photos: 100 gb
Games: 50 gb
Comics 100 gb
TV Shows: 581!
Total: 931.51
My rationale is that my photos get updated very frequently, and are more prone to fragmentation, so I'll keep them on one partition so I can defrag it easily. Games, with save games, profiles, etc, similarly tend to create new files. Music gets added to, so seemed sensible to keep that in one lump, and then that leaves a lot of space for movies.
I've actually got 38 gb music, 65 gb comics, 33gb photos, but am leaving extra space for these to "grow", especially photos when we have a small baby
That's 6 partitions. Is that stupid? Is my reasoning re: keeping similar items grouped together to assist with defragging certain things when necessary, faulty?
Any thoughts gratefully received.