Adding a 120giger, how should i parition it?

totaly · Post by **totaly** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 8:38 pm

i currently have raid1 consisting of two 20gig HDD's.

Now i need more space so i'm planning to add a WD 120MB HDD.

How should do i parition it?

My raid1 has: primary partition(2.5gigs) + Extended partition(17.5gigs)

So when i add the 120 giger how do i partition it? As a primary partition with a bunch of logical DOS drives...say 20 gigs each?

monkeyhead · Post by **monkeyhead** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 10:12 pm

dont partition it.... why would you want to?

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 10:26 pm

Originally posted by totaly
i currently have raid1 consisting of two 20gig HDD's.

Now i need more space so i'm planning to add a WD 120MB HDD.

How should do i parition it?

My raid1 has: primary partition(2.5gigs) + Extended partition(17.5gigs)

So when i add the 120 giger how do i partition it? As a primary partition with a bunch of logical DOS drives...say 20 gigs each?

one question, why?

you'd have a million drive letters lol

i like to keep things simple, one big partition

Docsta · Post by **Docsta** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 10:27 pm

I would make it two 60 gigs if i were you bro.

--Docsta

Benign · Post by **Benign** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 11:06 pm

As Docsta said, if you want to partition it at all.. Just do Two 60 gig partitions.

MrTRiX · Post by **MrTRiX** » Wed Jul 24, 2002 4:11 am

Yes 2 60GB's is a good idea. And for the maximum amount id do there is always 3 40GB's. If your FDisk is not up to date you might have to do so as well.

FDisk Update (http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... S;Q263044&)

FreeDOS FDISK (http://www.23cc.com/free-fdisk/)

HawaiianGhost · Post by **HawaiianGhost** » Wed Jul 24, 2002 4:35 am

If your're using WinXP OS (U didn't mention what OS you plan to use) you can either leave it 120Gb or split it into 2x60GB. Here's a little something that I read just yesterday in one of my favorite mag'z:

"WinXp automatically puts large files onto the outside edge of drive, where high seek times are mitigated by high throughput speeds. The smaller, more frequently accessed files use the inside edge, to take advantage of low access times. When you partition the drive into two pieces, you lose most of the advantages of this ordering scheme."

--MAXIMUM PC, "Clean Start" article, step 4, pg. 28, Aug 2002

WinXp also has an option in "Administration tools(?)" that configures a "folder" of your choice to be recognized by the system a "virtual drive". I bumped into this option the other day but really haven't tried it out yet, eventually I will though.

Just something to look into before you format that BiG A$$ drive...

*Tweak XP is the prog that lets you create a "virtual drive" by enabling your system to recognize a specified path/folder as a drive. Sorry about that, I was doing two things at once that day and thought that Windows itself had that tool.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Jul 24, 2002 8:10 am

Originally posted by michaelanthony
dont partition it.... why would you want to?

I agree...for storage, keep it simple, one large partition...say a 120 gig E drive.

totaly · Post by **totaly** » Wed Jul 24, 2002 10:56 am

Well i dunno, wouldn't defrag take a long time? especially if i only want to do a part of the hdd as oposed to the whole thing?

Oh and i'm still on win98se

totaly · Post by **totaly** » Wed Jul 24, 2002 11:03 am

PS, i think i like the three 4-gig partition suggestion...thats everyone!

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Wed Jul 24, 2002 1:31 pm

What is the max partition you can have in win98se?

Is there any limit?

Can I do 120 gb if I go with that size?

Havent decided yet.

the_mp3_refuge · Post by **the_mp3_refuge** » Wed Jul 24, 2002 11:21 pm

The limiting factor in 98se is the file system. FAT32 as I remember can only have 40 gigs per partition. In order to go higher you would need the NTFS file system on like 2K or XP. Besides 120GB on 1 disk, backup would be a bitch though if you only had that drive.

Bob

HawaiianGhost · Post by **HawaiianGhost** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 1:55 am

Originally posted by davy19
What is the max partition you can have in win98se?

Is there any limit?

Can I do 120 gb if I go with that size?

Havent decided yet.

Win98SE I believe would recognize only up to 32GB out of that 120GB drive. WinMe (98SE'z supposed successor) was designed to recognize more, upto 120GB(?), *don't quote me on that 120GB*. In order to recognize that whole 120GB drive using Win98SE, you'd have to partition the 120GB drive into 32GB or less a piece. I had to do this with a friends system in the past using an 80GB WD 7200rpm on Win98SE OS. E-Z bios (the partitioning tool that comes with WD drives) was at first, a real pain.

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 8:26 am

Acutally I did some searching, turns out fat32 will only support up to 32 gb volume in windows XP, but in windows 98 it supports up to 2 TB, so I should be ok. I am not concerned about backup, since I dont keep any real data that large, that I could not use a cd burner.

SICMF · Post by **SICMF** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 8:54 am

Originally posted by davy19
Acutally I did some searching, turns out fat32 will only support up to 32 gb volume in windows XP, but in windows 98 it supports up to 2 TB, so I should be ok. I am not concerned about backup, since I dont keep any real data that large, that I could not use a cd burner.

I don't get that i have to 80 gig WD and my OS WXP Pro is on one of them formated FAT 32 (Perfect). And one is NTFS. Am i missing something. I've Heard that a few times now.

Partial · Post by **Partial** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 11:46 am

Davy

You're right that 98 supports up to 2TB, but it needs a cluster size of 32KB to do so. At 32KB, wasted space gets pretty big. Better to have two 60Gb drives at 16K clusters than 1 big one. If you want more drives, that will depend on what you will use the drives for. If you use the space for big media files (sound editing, recording, video, cd burning) that are constantly moving to and from the drive, fragmentation will be higher. Other data files that will just sit should be on another drive. Those data files won't frag so quickly and won't need to be defragged as often.

Keep in mind that you bought a big HD so naturally defragging will take some time. If you really want performance, your OS and programs should be run from that drive.

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Adding a 120giger, how should i parition it?

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Re: Adding a 120giger, how should i parition it?

*correction on "virtual drive" tweak...