Given the drive performance varies so widely with your selected applications there is no best setup. Try your possible setups and benchmark it. Then use the best results.
" (100mb): temporary file partition holding temp and temporary internet files "
I have some video editing and the temp files zoom into the gigabytes so this is a fine example where such a setup would fail for me. I can't tell if you do such so I can't tell you if this is a bad setup.
Bob
can u tell me if this is a good way to organize my hds.
Drive 1 320 7200.10 seagate
Partition 1 C 50 gig): Primary? NTFS partition and set it to ?Active (Os/apps/games,pagefile --> what size here if i have 2 gig mem?) is it better to have your "program files folder "with all your apps on a new partition or keep it all together?
Partition 2 D: (100mb): temporary file partition holding temp and temporary internet files
Partition 3 E: the rest of the space
Create a folder on E: for each user account. Call it ?Account Name?s? Folder
Move each user's "Desktop" and "My Documents" folders to their folder on E:
IE and OE users should move both their Favorites and Email store folder to their folder on E:
Downloaded programs: Original downloads preserved to assist in future reinstallations -> should this be on a new partition?
Drive 2 200gig 7200.8 seagate
Partition 1 G: (3gb?) for pagefile. how big should my pagefile be if i have 2gig mem then?
Partition H: the rest of the space backup of os,
apps, movies mp3s, etc in seperate folders
please tell me if this setup is good or needs significant changes. im not sure how to back up properly so advice would be much appreciated in that area. i created this setup looking at other forums and searching the web

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