I have always wondered what really gives out the best system performance when it comes to HD partitioning. I have 4 Hard Disks in my rig?: 1TB 32MB Cache 7200RPM 1TB 32MB Cache 7200RPM 512GB 16MB Cache 7200RPM 512GB 16MB Cache 7200RPM 2 x Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 3Gb/s 1-TB Hard Drive (32MB Cache) http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...0f43110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD&reqPage=Model 1 x Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 500-GB Hard (16MB Cache) Drivehttp://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=b9df99f4fa74c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD 1 x Barracuda 7200.9 SATA 500-GB Hard Drive (16 MB Cache) http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=785e99f4fa74c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD I’m going to do a fresh WinXP Pro installation and I was thinking of dividing the 1TB HD to 3 partitions: C: WinXP Pro (20GB), Linux (15GB) (Dual Boot) D: Games installation / execution (100GB) E: Backup / Downloads (880GB) And use the rest 3 HD as they are (Unpartitioned) 1TB, 512GB & 512GB for Backup / Downloads. Or should I use the entire 1TB HD for WinXP, the 2nd HD 512GB for games installation, and the rest: 1TB & 512GB for Linux & Backup / Downloads. Any opinions / suggestions will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
this is what i would do. use 1 500gb drive for xp and linux boot. use the 2nd 500gb for xp program files and linux /home and swap partition. then i would use the 2 1tb drives for everything else. you can also get better performance if you move the page file and swap partition off of the boot drive. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307886
