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radified hard drive partitioning strategies posted 25 june 2001 p a g e o n e o f f i v e this guide shares insights on the subject of hard drive partitioning here you will find strategies for the best way to partition your new hard drive the dual premise behind this guide is based on two key factors with hard drive capacities growing so large now 1 terabyte intelligent partitioning has become an issue it s always better to partition intelligently the first time than have to go back and re partition later when discussing hard drive partitions it helps to have a graphical representation in mind the image located at the top of this page comes from partition magic to be safe keep data recovery in mind too there you see three ntfs partitions represented in a single 120 gb hard drive which includes one primary partition labeled d _drive and two logical dos drives labeled j _drive k _drive contained in a single extended partition light blue outline yellow areas contain data white areas free space before we proceed i should mention that this guide is not a partitioning tutorial if you re looking for a step by step procedure on how to use fdisk to create or delete partitions check out doc s fdisk guide it s referenced by several universities disk manufacturers such as samsung for your hypertext convenience these partitioning strategies can be found at any of these fine radified urls http partition radified com http partition radified com partitioning htm http radified com partition partitioning htm it has become surprisingly popular if you search google or yahoo for the query string hard drive partitioning strategies you ll see what i mean most people however arrive here by following links posted in various bulletin boards around the net if you frequent such forums you ll find many posts containing links that refer to this guide before we begin i want to mention shameless plug a few other radified guides you might find helpful the norton ghost user s guide is the site s single most requested feature the aspi drivers guide is the second most requested feature and is translated into more languages than any other site guide the guide to booting from a scsi hard drive is my personal favorite espousing a hybrid approach to disk storage the guide to ripping encoding cd audio receives more kudos than any other guide the newest addition is a windows xp installation guide and several others shameless plug in addition to the graphic posted at the top i offer the following analogy to help you further conceptualize your data storage system this analogy uses concepts already familiar to you houses rooms and room dividers hard drives are like houses because each house hard drive has its own rooms partitons houses come in different sizes and may contain any number of rooms partitions they can also be expensive and some are built better than others adding a second hard drive to your system is like buying a vacation home at the shore or the lake it could be used to store all your digital media such as your mp3 collection your lossless audio files or photographs partitions are like rooms in a house because they separate different parts of a house into distinct areas for different purposes for example the kitchen for cooking bedroom for sleeping gaming room for playing counterstrike likewise you can create a partition for all your games and another to store your back ups etc folders also called directories are like areas sectioned off by room dividers because they are simple to set up create and easy to remove delete they can be changed around without much fuss to suit your needs but they also have limitations each one of the items mentioned above hard drives partitions folders comes with it s own advantages disadvantages understanding these pro s con s is what allows you to make wise decisions regarding how you configure your disk data storage system updated 10 jan 2011 p a g e o n e o f f i v e let s get busy it never ceases to surprise me how much controversy the subject of hard drive partitioning can generate small wars have been waged over the best way to divvy up a hard disk why do people get so fired up over something so seemingly insignificant the problem the problem stems from the fact that some people seem to feel that the partitioning strategy that works best for them is best for everyone but this isn t true why because we all have different systems and we use our different systems for different purposes what works best for the goose might not work well for the gander which leads to my next point major premise here it is partitioning is a personal thing there is no right or wrong way to partition a hard drive whether you prefer to bust up your disk into multiple smaller partitions or leave it as a single monster sized partition that s entirely up to you in either case no one can claim that you did anything wrong because your strategy depends on what works best for you my position a disk with multiple partitions offers advantages over a disk with only a single partition because it offers a greater degree of flexibility i discuss these advantages in detail on the next page as you ll see shortly there are many factors to consider but i ll be bold state my conclusion here and follow with the reasoning later it s generally a good idea to create at least 3 partitions per hard disk on the last page of this guide i detail how i would partition a single drive system this multi partition strategy offers improved flexibility over single partition systems note that the more hard disks your system contains the less partitions each hard disk needs to achieve the same degree of flexibility the least flexible configuration is a single drive system that contains only a single partition if you consider our house room divider analogy mentioned earlier you can see that a single partition drive is analogous to a single house with one large room sectioned off with only room dividers folders while this configuration may work well for some people many folks find it limiting and feel it does not represent the optimal data storage arrangement for reasons detailed on the next page note that it is possible to add another room partition after your house is built by throwing up a wall or you can knock down a wall to join two smaller adjacent rooms into one large room delete a partition but these post construction modifications are often a pain and cause problems my point again is that it s best to design your partitions intelligently with an eye to the future when you first place the drive into service just as it s better to design your house and all its rooms when you build the thing make sense so now that i ve stated my general rule for partitioning we need to look at exceptions to the rule exceptions hard drives that will be dedicated solely for video capture or digital media such as mp3s or lossless audio files are best partitioned as a single large partition now that hard drive space has become so cheap many people dedicate an entire hard drive to rip and encode their whole cd collection multiple operating systems if you re going to install multiple operating systems dual boot or multi boot to on the same physical disk you must create a separate partition for each o s for example if you want to dual boot both windows xp and windows vista or two separate versions of windows vista on the same physical hard disk you ll need at least two partitions on that disk if you want to install a third operating system maybe one dedicated solely for video editing triple boot you ll need at least three if you d like to try your hand at linux the server based o s that s all the rage make that 4 partitions suppose you want to install a beta copy of microsoft s next generation operating system called vienna to play with make that 5 you get the point each operating system needs its own partition supporting logic capacities of hard drives have reached a remarkable 1 terabyte that s 1 000 gigiabytes and by the time you read this they ve likely grown even larger a quick check at newegg reveals that a 320 gb seagate barracuda 7200 10 hard drive 7200 rpm 16 mb cache can be purchased for us 90 that s about 30 cents per gig newegg s resellerrating is here a 500 gigger sells for 170 35 cents per gig and a 750 gigger sells for 300 40 cents per gig these prices will likely drop by the time you read this when they do simply divide the price by the capacity as measured in gigabytes to find the current sweet spot lowest price per capacity ratio if one thing is certain it s that drive capacities will continue to grow as prices continue to fall as mentioned earlier with escalating drive capacities along with the increasing popularity of mp3s video editing audio recording and multi boot systems intelligent partitioning is becoming more of an issue for simplicity s sake i ll assume we have a system containing a single 320 gb drive since this size seems to be a popular right now if a quiet drive is important to you you would probably opt for the seagate barracuda note that the price capacity sweetstop is near the 320 gb size and will soon be at a 500 gb drive if i were purchasing a new hard drive today i d choose a 500 gigger piggy wiggy me cuz i don t mind paying a premium for the extra space but you could buy two 320 giggers for what a 500 gigger would cost you note that if we were to use these larger drives 400 500 750 gb or 1 terabyte as the basis for our musings all points made here regarding the advantages of multi partition drives would be made even more convincingly speaking of the advantages of multi partition drives next hard drive partitioning strategies page 2 5 radified home