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How to slice a 2TB drive?
I am reading this:
http://partition.radified.com/ Here is the world according to me. Let me know if I am very far off on this. All I want to do is break the disk into 6 or so equal parts. The main reason is to give each part its own drive letter and disk label. This makes the FAT 6 times smaller so it only has to read 1/6 of the info during access times. I also think this makes defragging easier, but since XP doesn't always let me defrag without booting, I don't defrag much.....well never. XP allows 3 primary partitions and one extended (that can be sliced many times) The only reason for a primary partition is to boot from. I am not booting from this drive at all, but I don't see any reason not to have 3 primary partitions, so my plain is...2,000G/6 is about 350. I am going to have 3-350 primary and whatever is left will be the extended partition. Because I have never dealt with logical drives, I assume after I split the disk into 4 parts, I will have the option of splitting the extended partition again into 3-300G parts. Does this sound like it will fly? |
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How to slice a 2TB drive?
Metspitzer wrote:
I am reading this: http://partition.radified.com/ Here is the world according to me. Let me know if I am very far off on this. All I want to do is break the disk into 6 or so equal parts. The main reason is to give each part its own drive letter and disk label. This makes the FAT 6 times smaller so it only has to read 1/6 of the info during access times. I also think this makes defragging easier, but since XP doesn't always let me defrag without booting, I don't defrag much.....well never. XP allows 3 primary partitions and one extended (that can be sliced many times) The only reason for a primary partition is to boot from. I am not booting from this drive at all, but I don't see any reason not to have 3 primary partitions, so my plain is...2,000G/6 is about 350. I am going to have 3-350 primary and whatever is left will be the extended partition. Because I have never dealt with logical drives, I assume after I split the disk into 4 parts, I will have the option of splitting the extended partition again into 3-300G parts. Does this sound like it will fly? I have another suggestion. Ad-hoc partitioning. Start with a primary partition. Make it big enough for a reasonable time span of usage. Leave the rest of the space unpartitioned and unused. Now, when you do backups, defragging or other forms of maintenance, you won't be waiting hours for 2TB of empty sectors to be processed, examined or copied. If you actually had 2TB of data available from other sources, then you would be able to prepare a plan based on some sort of filing system. (X space for photos, Y space for movies, Z space for documents, and so on.) For example, say I had 1TB of movies stored on a ton of small drives. I'd set up a 1TB NTFS partition, then copy over the movies. That partition will never need to be defragmented, as all the files are big ones. You'll want to run chkdsk on it occasionally, to remove dormant faults before they become an issue. But otherwise, there might not be much to do there, except to make the occasional backup. Keep your C: partition relatively small. If you make it a big partition (such as your 350GB plan), then before you know it, it'll be filled with 500000 small "cruft" files, and be painful and slow to maintain or to search (if you're not using a good third party search tool). So rather than being fixated on "slicing up an apple pie", put some thought into the real usage. And if no plan comes to mind, leave the unused parts blank. A plan will come together, sooner than you think. You can use primaries for the first three, because premature usage of an extended, will only mean backing up and laying it out again later. You can never get the split between an extended, and the rest of the partitions, right. As an example of this, I have somewhere around a 320GB disk in my new laptop. I shrank the C: partition on it, down to 30GB (with a plan perhaps, in the near future, to move up to 40GB, so I can safely install SP1). The rest of the disk is currently empty, and there are no other partitions than the wasteful partition scheme the manufacturer of the laptop put there. HTH, Paul |
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How to slice a 2TB drive?
On 11-03-11 07:46 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I am reading this: http://partition.radified.com/ Here is the world according to me. Let me know if I am very far off on this. All I want to do is break the disk into 6 or so equal parts. The main reason is to give each part its own drive letter and disk label. This makes the FAT 6 times smaller so it only has to read 1/6 of the info during access times. I also think this makes defragging easier, but since XP doesn't always let me defrag without booting, I don't defrag much.....well never. XP allows 3 primary partitions and one extended (that can be sliced many times) The only reason for a primary partition is to boot from. I am not booting from this drive at all, but I don't see any reason not to have 3 primary partitions, so my plain is...2,000G/6 is about 350. I am going to have 3-350 primary and whatever is left will be the extended partition. Because I have never dealt with logical drives, I assume after I split the disk into 4 parts, I will have the option of splitting the extended partition again into 3-300G parts. Does this sound like it will fly? If you're not going to be booting from this disk, then why bother with primary partitions at all? Just make them all part of a single extended partition. Yousuf Khan |
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How to slice a 2TB drive?
I am going to have 3-350 primary and whatever is left will be the
extended partition. Because I have never dealt with logical drives, I assume after I split the disk into 4 parts, I will have the option of splitting the extended partition again into 3-300G parts. I would create 3 primary & 1 extended. The extended partition can be further sliced into more than 4 volumes. -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.37.3 ^ ^ 12:34:01 up 22:55 0 users load average: 1.13 1.12 1.13 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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How to slice a 2TB drive?
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:46:11 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote: I am reading this: http://partition.radified.com/ Here is the world according to me. Let me know if I am very far off on this. After listening to the suggestions, can you do this with XP? Say I create an extended partition (no primary) that is 1/4 space on the drive and leave 3/4 unformatted (unallocated?), and make that 4 logical drives. Say I have a very good reason for having 4 different type files. All I expect to happen is that when I run out of space is that I just want all 4 drives to double in space. What happens when I want to use another 1/4 of the space and I don't really want 8 logical drives? I want 4 drives twice as large. This make sense to anyone? |
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How to slice a 2TB drive?
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:37:16 +0800, Man-wai Chang
wrote: I am going to have 3-350 primary and whatever is left will be the extended partition. Because I have never dealt with logical drives, I assume after I split the disk into 4 parts, I will have the option of splitting the extended partition again into 3-300G parts. I would create 3 primary & 1 extended. The extended partition can be further sliced into more than 4 volumes. That was my original plan. I am now considering only using part of the drive. Thanks |
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How to slice a 2TB drive?
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to be Metspitzer typed: I am reading this: http://partition.radified.com/ Here is the world according to me. Let me know if I am very far off on this. All I want to do is break the disk into 6 or so equal parts. The main reason is to give each part its own drive letter and disk label. This makes the FAT 6 times smaller so it only has to read 1/6 of the info during access times. This isn't a factor for NTFS, NTFS' directory structures are distributed around the disk and do not require a full scan. I also think this makes defragging easier, but since XP doesn't always let me defrag without booting, I don't defrag much.....well never. Defragmenting tends to be more efficient on partitions with higher percentages of free space (or at least it gets extremely inefficient with reduces amount of space), so if you end up with three partitions that are 90% full followed by one that is empty, you'll take significantly longer to defragment than a single partition. Moreover, fragmentation gets worse faster when the drive is full, so you'll potentially hurt performance before you even count defragmenting time. (Personally I don't care how long a defragmentation takes, within reason, it's the sort of thing the computer does when I'm not around and therefore don't care) XP allows 3 primary partitions and one extended (that can be sliced many times) That's a BIOS limit going way back to the 80s. The only reason for a primary partition is to boot from. I am not booting from this drive at all, but I don't see any reason not to have 3 primary partitions, so my plain is...2,000G/6 is about 350. A better question is why? I am going to have 3-350 primary and whatever is left will be the extended partition. Because I have never dealt with logical drives, I assume after I split the disk into 4 parts, I will have the option of splitting the extended partition again into 3-300G parts. Does this sound like it will fly? You can have as many logical partitions within the one extended partition as you want, so the total number is moot. Strictly speaking you can only boot from a primary partition, but beyond that, there's little need to care about the difference between primary and logical partitions these days. There's really very little need to worry about partitioning at all in most cases, even with 2TB volume sizes, unless you have multiple operating systems, have a need for different types of filesystems, or have organizational reasons that might cause you to want to wipe one partition entirely. The days of having to partition as a matter of course are basically an element of the past, at least in the Windows world. |
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How to slice a 2TB drive?
I would create 3 primary& 1 extended. The extended partition can be
further sliced into more than 4 volumes. That was my original plan. I am now considering only using part of the drive. You are the boss. Do it your way! -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.37.3 ^ ^ 16:49:01 up 1 day 3:10 0 users load average: 1.09 1.09 1.09 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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How to slice a 2TB drive?
Per Paul:
As an example of this, I have somewhere around a 320GB disk in my new laptop. I shrank the C: partition on it, down to 30GB (with a plan perhaps, in the near future, Assuming that you did that without having to re-install the OS, what utility did you use? -- PeteCresswell |
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How to slice a 2TB drive?
On 3/11/2011 6:46 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I am reading this: http://partition.radified.com/ Here is the world according to me. Let me know if I am very far off on this. All I want to do is break the disk into 6 or so equal parts. The main reason is to give each part its own drive letter and disk label. This makes the FAT 6 times smaller so it only has to read 1/6 of the info during access times. I also think this makes defragging easier, but since XP doesn't always let me defrag without booting, I don't defrag much.....well never. XP allows 3 primary partitions and one extended (that can be sliced many times) The only reason for a primary partition is to boot from. I am not booting from this drive at all, but I don't see any reason not to have 3 primary partitions, so my plain is...2,000G/6 is about 350. I am going to have 3-350 primary and whatever is left will be the extended partition. Because I have never dealt with logical drives, I assume after I split the disk into 4 parts, I will have the option of splitting the extended partition again into 3-300G parts. Does this sound like it will fly? Why use FAT? XP work best and I thought only in NTSF? -- Rick Holbrook Fargo, ND N 4653'07" W 09648'18" or 46.887527N -96.805079W Remember the USS Liberty http://www.ussliberty.org/ Reply to: fholbrook(at)cableone.net |
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