Hello all!
This is my first visit here. I need some suggestions with regards to hard drive installation / partitioning.
My system:
Intel Core 2 Duo - 3.0 GHz
Intel P45 Chipset based (ICH10) motherboard (MSI)
Corsair 6GB DDR3 Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
HDD1 - 250 GB SATA (old)
HDD2 - 1000 GB SATAII (installed recently)
HDD3 - 1000 GB SATAII (installed recently)
Creative X-Fi Sound Card
24" ACER HD LCD Display
HP DVD-Writer
Windows 7 64-bit
I have configured disk partitions as follows:
HDD1 > 2 partitions
C: = 100 GB - Windows 7 installation
H: = 150 GB - Data
HDD2 > 2 partitions
D: = 500 GB - Data
E: = 500 GB - Data
HDD3 > 2 partitions
F: = 500 GB - Data
G: = 500 GB - Data
All HDDs are Simple Volumes (no RAID). As mentioned above, I recently added 2 new HDDs i.e. HDD2
and HDD3 since they were more than 3 years old.
I am planning to replace HDD1 now as it has gotten REALLY slow. Data reads / writes are at crawling speeds.
Maybe the HDD has developed faults and it might die any moment. I would like to know whether should I go
for 500 GB or 1000 GB HDD, cost not being a factor. Also, are there any disadvantages, with regards to
performance, in partitioning HDD to C: and H: partitions (let's say 50% space allocated to each)? Or
allocating 100% to C: would make disk activity faster?
Lastly, for improving OS performance (HDD1), what kind of RAID hardware / software configuration would you
guys recommend? I really dont need fast disk access for HDD2 and HDD3.
Thank you for your time.
Regards,
Kamran
This is my first visit here. I need some suggestions with regards to hard drive installation / partitioning.
My system:
Intel Core 2 Duo - 3.0 GHz
Intel P45 Chipset based (ICH10) motherboard (MSI)
Corsair 6GB DDR3 Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
HDD1 - 250 GB SATA (old)
HDD2 - 1000 GB SATAII (installed recently)
HDD3 - 1000 GB SATAII (installed recently)
Creative X-Fi Sound Card
24" ACER HD LCD Display
HP DVD-Writer
Windows 7 64-bit
I have configured disk partitions as follows:
HDD1 > 2 partitions
C: = 100 GB - Windows 7 installation
H: = 150 GB - Data
HDD2 > 2 partitions
D: = 500 GB - Data
E: = 500 GB - Data
HDD3 > 2 partitions
F: = 500 GB - Data
G: = 500 GB - Data
All HDDs are Simple Volumes (no RAID). As mentioned above, I recently added 2 new HDDs i.e. HDD2
and HDD3 since they were more than 3 years old.
I am planning to replace HDD1 now as it has gotten REALLY slow. Data reads / writes are at crawling speeds.
Maybe the HDD has developed faults and it might die any moment. I would like to know whether should I go
for 500 GB or 1000 GB HDD, cost not being a factor. Also, are there any disadvantages, with regards to
performance, in partitioning HDD to C: and H: partitions (let's say 50% space allocated to each)? Or
allocating 100% to C: would make disk activity faster?
Lastly, for improving OS performance (HDD1), what kind of RAID hardware / software configuration would you
guys recommend? I really dont need fast disk access for HDD2 and HDD3.
Thank you for your time.
Regards,
Kamran