Gardinen

I have a plan.

I've got one Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 7200rpm 8mb cache 80GB PATA and two Seagate 120GB 7200.7 SATA.
The setup I'm planning to is:

C: Maxtor disk 80GB (all of it or perhaps a 20GB partition for Windows and the leave the rest unpartioned)
D: Seagate 120GB (storage. on single partition @ 120GB)
E: and F: Seagate 120GB (F: would be a swap partition of 2GB and E: would take the rest for storage)

What do you think?? Or should I just have the Seagate disks and take out the Maxtor, and then have Windows on one of the Seagate disk together with the storage partition???

dipstick

I would RAID the two seagates', run windows off them, and use the Maxtor as a backup on PATA channel 1

mike2h

yep! also consider doing a 10gig partition for just your operating sys & program files. put your games in a seperate partition.makes management & backing up a little easier. at least for me.

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Judas

This is how i would do it.....

RAID:

both seagates in raid 0 mode giving a total of 240gb and partitioned as such below:

C: ~ 10Gb ~ Windows and Program files
D: ~ 130Gb ~ Games
E: ~ 100Gb ~ Others/downloads

With the Maxtor still in there 80GB

F: ~ 5gb ~ Windows Paging File
G: ~ 75Gb ~ Music

However, that's how i would do it for a raid setup

This would be how i would do it if i didn't have raid

Seagate 1 120gb

C: ~ 10gb ~ Windows and Program files
D: ~ 130gb ~ Games

Seagate 2 120gb

E: ~ 5gb ~ Windows Paging File
F: ~ 135gb ~ Other/Downloads

Maxtor 80gb (not really need.... i would probably remove it as i would never need more then 240gb for a very long time however)

G: ~ 80gb ~ Music

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Gardinen

Okey. Thanx Judas for a delight answer. And since I've noticed that the Seagates doesn't work well in RAID I'm now using the both as single drives. Sure I got a bit lower benchmark points, but somehow the computer seems faster. Hard to explain why and how, but that's how it is.

I'm using the second setup that you sugested Judas...although slightly different

Disk1 C: Windows 20GB D: storage and games
Disk2 E: Pagefile F: Storage - Movies and stuff

It works very well, and my 80GB drive goes into my server (2100+, 1GB RAM)

Judas

sounds good glad i could help!

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Logla

I got 2 RAID 0 setups.

One 120x2 for storage partitioned across 2 volumes

The other is 2.36gig raptors on one 74gig partition for windows only. is this the best way to leave these drives or is it worth partitioning for the page file as well?

Judas

since you have 2 raid 0 arrays.... put a partition on the hardrive that isn't getting hit at all... let say if you have your games and windows on the raptors and the download and other files on the other.... i'd put the page file on the later....

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Logla

Cool, thanks!