pc organization - Page 2

Sirus · 04-26-2007, 06:47 PM

1 250 gb WD external hard drive, which like most people here, I usually save everything to desktop but before it looks like Elstats biggrin: ill sort it into the multitude of folders i have in the External Hardrive

Arkan · 04-26-2007, 06:59 PM

I'm a lil' behind the times. Only have 2 drives. Main drive (30g) has the OS installed and games. The 80g drive is just storage for mp3's and pics.

geRV · 04-26-2007, 07:04 PM

Ive 2 sata 2 drives a 400 gig (372 after format) with a 10 gig partition for ghost images. Thats my main OS installation drive, xp at the minute. My second drive is a 250 (232 after format) secondary OS drive containing vista 64 ultimate edition. External media consistts of a 3.8 gig flash drive which is for random stuff.

Also got a few memory card readers on the shuttle and the monitor itself which fill up the drive section quite a bit.

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/drive-setup.jpg[/img]

Keeping them tidy is simple enough, vista has a premade folder for dloads under the user section, by default everything goes to there. Xp is the same deal really, just usually keep media in the shared folder of limewire.

I don't tend to install that much at all, rarely my drive get anywhere even near half full, any games i can't be bothered with usually get uninstalled. Only problem with a dual hard drive\dual OS setup is having to install games and programs on both operating systems.

I prefer vista by far but some games can be akward about it and not run properly, because of my missing ram xp is being used more lately as vista turns into a chugathon with only 768megs free, especially when trying to run a game. Also audio for the ps3 has to go through xp as the control panel option for the onboard sound won't work in vista and won't let me enable spdif in.

Tripper · 04-26-2007, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by elstatec

i love how if you fill your desktop it keeps going off to the right, so then you just drag the stuff you can see and when you select align to grid a few months later you are surprised by a multitude of porn you thought you had lost

lmao.

Miscguy · 04-26-2007, 07:22 PM

[quote:a98bf]My second drive is a 350 (232 after format) [/quote:a98bf]

Wtf 112 gigs missing. I understand the sizing of drives is a bit of "fals advertising" based on bits, bytes, and techno jargin like that. But i have never heard of it being off by so much. I mean id expect it to be short by about as much as the 400 gig you have.

geRV · 04-26-2007, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Miscguy

[quote:cba04]My second drive is a 350 (232 after format)

Wtf 112 gigs missing. I understand the sizing of drives is a bit of "fals advertising" based on bits, bytes, and techno jargin like that. But i have never heard of it being off by so much. I mean id expect it to be short by about as much as the 400 gig you have.[/quote:cba04]

lol i meant 250, hit the wrong button. mad:

Miscguy · 04-26-2007, 11:25 PM

I was all like holy fuck someone call the BBB these bitchs are taken geeks for a ride!

Nyck · 04-27-2007, 05:42 AM

have a 80 gig drive and thats it. 40 gb is all my programs, other 40 is media, torrents, porn, movies, pix and install files

ninty · 04-27-2007, 07:35 AM

30gb = OS
90gb = games and other programs
external 120gb = saved pictures and backups

When I build a new system I will be doing probably 3 320 gig drives or something like that. Will be much easier to seperate everything out. You just have to decide where you want to put everything and make sure you follow through with it.

With a shit load of drives, you might forget and just save to the main drive. Maybe put a stickie and remind yourself not to install or download to c.

I kept doing that and my 30gig which was supposed to be for os filled up really quickly because i kept forgetting to change the "c" when installing programs.

figure out how many partitions you need and try to stick to it.

geRV · 04-27-2007, 07:49 AM

Just buy a 1tb drive and partition it.

ninty · 04-27-2007, 07:52 AM

when the price comes down. cheaper to buy 3 320gig.

geRV · 04-27-2007, 08:00 AM

Theyre £200 over here which isn't a bad price.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... subcat=768

happy:

Then again could grab 3 of these and have more storage for slightly less

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... subcat=768

anti · 04-27-2007, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by geRV

Just buy a 1tb drive and partition it.

if something happens tot hat one drive you're fucked.

geRV · 04-27-2007, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by anti

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Originally Posted by geRV

Just buy a 1tb drive and partition it.

if something happens tot hat one drive you're fucked.

And if anything happens to your backup drive, same scenario. You're really walking a tightrope keeping backups on hard drives. Prefer to burn it all to a load of dvd's in addition to having a backup drive.

anti · 04-27-2007, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by geRV

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Originally Posted by anti

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Originally Posted by geRV

Just buy a 1tb drive and partition it.

if something happens tot hat one drive you're fucked.

And if anything happens to your backup drive, same scenario. You're really walking a tightrope keeping backups on hard drives. Prefer to burn it all to a load of dvd's in addition to having a backup drive.

i don't see how it's the same scenario, if i have two drives holding the same important information; if one fails there's still another? how would i be fucked?
i'm not going to burn 200 gigs to dvds, how long would that take?