OK to have 500GB hard drive as one partition?

I use XP Pro/SP2 at home. The PC hardware is a bit slow.

I have got a 500GB hard drive mainly to use as a backup for my main
data.

Is there anything (perhaps in XP or in NTFS or from good sense) which
suggests that I'm wiser not to make the whole 500 GB into one partition?

"Jon D" wrote in message
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I use XP Pro/SP2 at home. The PC hardware is a bit slow.

I have got a 500GB hard drive mainly to use as a backup for my main
data.

Is there anything (perhaps in XP or in NTFS or from good sense) which
suggests that I'm wiser not to make the whole 500 GB into one partition?

It`s all a matter of personal choice.
Personally I`d split it into at least 3. ie. 2x200 + 1x100.
If your storing, say, videos, you might adjust sizes.

The reason I suggest this is `cos, if you got a bit of a
file or partition problem, you would still have stuff safe
on the other partitions (unless of course the whole drive
went pouff.)
YMMV.

"Jon D" wrote in message ...
I use XP Pro/SP2 at home. The PC hardware is a bit slow.

I have got a 500GB hard drive mainly to use as a backup for my main
data.

this is an external drive?


Is there anything (perhaps in XP or in NTFS or from good sense) which
suggests that I'm wiser not to make the whole 500 GB into one partition?

I'm a little old fashioned when it comes to this stuff. 500 gigs is over kill for most
situations and a b*tch to back up (if its internal).
I cannot see where anybody needs to have 500 gigs on one physical drive. At home anyway. I
do video and graphics quite often. Huge files on a temporary basis. This is done on 1 x
160, 1 x 250 Hitachi internals. With OS/software backup on an external 160 WD. Most of my
production software runs from my server so its not installed on my production rig. All my
'work' and 'work in progress' go unto DVD/CD, and on the external, on a temporary basis so
its easy to get to.


I digress, I would partition it into 2x 250's , but that's based on nothing but 'I' would
be more comfortable with it.

JAD wrote:
"Jon D" wrote in message
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I use XP Pro/SP2 at home. The PC hardware is a bit slow.

I have got a 500GB hard drive mainly to use as a backup for my main
data.

this is an external drive?


Is there anything (perhaps in XP or in NTFS or from good sense) which
suggests that I'm wiser not to make the whole 500 GB into one
partition?

I'm a little old fashioned when it comes to this stuff. 500 gigs is
over kill for most situations and a b*tch to back up (if its internal).

I cannot see where anybody needs to have 500 gigs on one physical drive. At home anyway.

More fool you. It isnt hard to fill one of those when used in a
PVR with 2-3GB/hour/channel and that isnt even high definition.

I do video and graphics quite often. Huge files on a temporary basis.

Some choose to keep quite a bit of stuff on their PVR so they have something worth watching.

This is done on 1 x 160, 1 x 250 Hitachi internals. With OS/software backup on an external 160 WD.
Most of my production software runs from my server so its not installed on my production rig. All
my 'work' and 'work in progress' go unto DVD/CD, and on the external, on a temporary basis so its
easy to get to.

I digress, I would partition it into 2x 250's , but that's based on nothing but 'I' would be more
comfortable with it.

More fool you.

JAD wrote:

"Jon D" wrote in message ...
I use XP Pro/SP2 at home. The PC hardware is a bit slow.

I have got a 500GB hard drive mainly to use as a backup for my main
data.

this is an external drive?


Is there anything (perhaps in XP or in NTFS or from good sense) which
suggests that I'm wiser not to make the whole 500 GB into one partition?

I'm a little old fashioned when it comes to this stuff. 500 gigs is over kill for most
situations and a b*tch to back up (if its internal).
I cannot see where anybody needs to have 500 gigs on one physical drive. At home anyway. I
do video and graphics quite often. Huge files on a temporary basis. This is done on 1 x
160, 1 x 250 Hitachi internals. With OS/software backup on an external 160 WD. Most of my
production software runs from my server so its not installed on my production rig. All my
'work' and 'work in progress' go unto DVD/CD, and on the external, on a temporary basis so
its easy to get to.

I digress, I would partition it into 2x 250's , but that's based on nothing but 'I' would
be more comfortable with it.

Think of jobs which cover the whole partition, such as e.g. defrag and backups. It may take
a long time to do 500GB, on the other hand it's only one job.

"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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JAD wrote:
"Jon D" wrote in message
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I use XP Pro/SP2 at home. The PC hardware is a bit slow.

I have got a 500GB hard drive mainly to use as a backup for my main
data.

this is an external drive?


Is there anything (perhaps in XP or in NTFS or from good sense) which
suggests that I'm wiser not to make the whole 500 GB into one
partition?

I'm a little old fashioned when it comes to this stuff. 500 gigs is
over kill for most situations and a b*tch to back up (if its internal).

I cannot see where anybody needs to have 500 gigs on one physical drive. At home
anyway.

More fool you. It isnt hard to fill one of those when used in a
PVR with 2-3GB/hour/channel and that isnt even high definition.



ahhh I can always count on you coming up with an obscure example..however keeping some
stupid movie or TV show on a hard drive hardly constitutes 'needed data'. Besides all that
porn is bad fer ya.



I do video and graphics quite often. Huge files on a temporary basis.

Some choose to keep quite a bit of stuff on their PVR so they have something worth
watching.



PVR PVR PVR PVR what else?


This is done on 1 x 160, 1 x 250 Hitachi internals. With OS/software backup on an
external 160 WD. Most of my production software runs from my server so its not
installed on my production rig. All my 'work' and 'work in progress' go unto DVD/CD,
and on the external, on a temporary basis so its easy to get to.

I digress, I would partition it into 2x 250's , but that's based on nothing but 'I'
would be more comfortable with it.

More fool you.

uhhuh .... kinda strange that 'you' would know what 'I' am 'comfortable' with, and
because I am comfortable, that in some way makes me fool.

New cliche' is in order.

"Jon D" wrote in message
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I use XP Pro/SP2 at home. The PC hardware is a bit slow.

I have got a 500GB hard drive mainly to use as a backup for my main
data.

Is there anything (perhaps in XP or in NTFS or from good sense) which
suggests that I'm wiser not to make the whole 500 GB into one partition?

I always go with a single partition. Having multiple smaller partitions just
makes things more difficult, *especially* if the drive gets near full.

JAD wrote:


"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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JAD wrote:
"Jon D" wrote in message
I cannot see where anybody needs to have 500 gigs on one physical drive.
At home anyway.

More fool you. It isnt hard to fill one of those when used in a
PVR with 2-3GB/hour/channel and that isnt even high definition.



ahhh I can always count on you coming up with an obscure example..however
keeping some stupid movie or TV show on a hard drive hardly constitutes
'needed data'. Besides all that porn is bad fer ya.

Pah, 500GB... Amateurs...

13TB on one logical drive spanned by a single XFS filesystem - that's a real
man's data volume...


n0b longitudinal comparisons aside, I have in the past tried to be "neat"
with larger disks and partion everything up on my home system. It usually
turns out to be a pain IME - I always end up overflowing one filesystem,
with loads of space left on another, so I gave up and spanned the entire
disk instead.

Backing up is a valid concern if one were limited to backing up at the block
device level, but I find rsync is good for my needs, backing up at the file
level it is easy to divide the data into manageable chucks if required.

This is an area where there is no right and wrong - merely the optimal for
the situation at hand, so this is just my 2p's worth....

Cheers

Tim

"Jon D" wrote in message
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I use XP Pro/SP2 at home. The PC hardware is a bit slow.

I have got a 500GB hard drive mainly to use as a backup for my main
data.

Is there anything (perhaps in XP or in NTFS or from good sense) which
suggests that I'm wiser not to make the whole 500 GB into one partition?


Hey...why not...
no need to divide it up unless you have a specific reason to do so...

it'll probably take you all day to fill it though...

might as well order another one right away!

JAD wrote
Rod Speed wrote
JAD wrote
Jon D wrote

I use XP Pro/SP2 at home. The PC hardware is a bit slow.

I have got a 500GB hard drive mainly to use as a backup for my main data.

this is an external drive?

Is there anything (perhaps in XP or in NTFS or from good sense) which suggests that I'm wiser
not to make the whole 500 GB into one partition?

I'm a little old fashioned when it comes to this stuff. 500 gigs is over kill for most
situations and a b*tch to back up (if its internal).

I cannot see where anybody needs to have 500 gigs on one physical
drive. At home anyway.

More fool you. It isnt hard to fill one of those when used in a
PVR with 2-3GB/hour/channel and that isnt even high definition.

ahhh I can always count on you coming up with an obscure example..

Nothing obscure about it, you pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.

Its actually by far the most common reason that 500G
drives are used with personal home desktop systems.

however keeping some stupid movie or TV show on a hard drive hardly constitutes 'needed data'.

You're the only one who even mentioned 'needed data', you pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.

Besides all that porn is bad fer ya.

Just because thats all you're obsessed with doesnt mean anything about anyone else, child.

I do video and graphics quite often. Huge files on a temporary basis.

Some choose to keep quite a bit of stuff on their PVR so they have something worth watching.

PVR PVR PVR PVR what else?

Doesnt need to be anything else, you pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.

This is done on 1 x 160, 1 x 250 Hitachi internals. With
OS/software backup on an external 160 WD. Most of my production
software runs from my server so its not installed on my production
rig. All my 'work' and 'work in progress' go unto DVD/CD, and on
the external, on a temporary basis so its easy to get to.

I digress, I would partition it into 2x 250's , but that's based on nothing but 'I' would be
more comfortable with it.

More fool you.

uhhuh .... kinda strange that 'you' would know what 'I' am 'comfortable' with,

Never ever said I was, you pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.

and because I am comfortable, that in some way makes me fool.

Corse it does in that case.

New cliche' is in order.

You dont qualify, you pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.