Any point partitioning for pagefile?

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Shelley said:
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That's got me wondering
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My feeling is that there is a point where someone is being too
pedantic for a minimal gain. I personally feel that you should just
keep things as simple as possible, and that means don't partition your
hard drive, just put one big partition on it, and leave it at that.
You'll know where to find things much quicker that way, and when you
start running low on disk space, you only have directories to look
through to clear stuff off, not partitions.

Yousuf Khan
 
Shelley said:
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/archive/16/2002/01/1/28


That's got me wondering

Thanx
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Parking the pagefile on a HD of its own will help, but sticking
it in a part. of its own on a shared HD will usually hurt
performance, if it makes any difference at all, because it will
likely make average seeks to the pagefile longer.

Far more important is that if your pagefile is used much at all,
you should buy more memory; when the pagefile is rarely used,
its location will not matter.
 
Windows and non-windows files mixture on a partition associated with the
jelly bean find holds no water. No matter what file it is, the PC will
locate each file location one by one as stated in the FAT. Just because the
file is a windows file (same color), don't mean its the one its supposed to
open next. Sequential use defragmentation used in current windows defrag
program addresses that.

Have kept the windows swapfile on an ultrascsi 4.3 GB drive for the last
couple of years. Yep, gave the whole thing to the swapfile. There is no
bennie for a separate partition on the same drive as windows.

Dave
 
Isn't it better to have a separate partition
to keep data and drive images on?
Nope.

I just had my hard drive collapse but I was able to stick a new
drive in and restore the image before failure onto it. No data loss.
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You still need to have both the OS and data drives backed
up, because the data drive can die just like the boot drive
can. So if everything was on one drive, you can just replace
the drive and restore from the backup just like you did.

And what was being discussed was partitions. You are
talking about physical drives, not partitions on a single drive.
 
Rod Speed said:
You still need to have both the OS and data drives backed
up, because the data drive can die just like the boot drive
can. So if everything was on one drive, you can just replace
the drive and restore from the backup just like you did.
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So where does the backup image file get kept? I tend not to use CDs as
the number of disks for a 5gb image is (to me) cumbersome.
I keep my _data_ backed up to another partition _and_ a CD and also to a
250mb Zip disk. My image backups are the OS and programs.

And what was being discussed was partitions. You are
talking about physical drives, not partitions on a single drive.
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True, but I was curious as to how other folk managed their disk space
and data.
 
Rod Speed said:
If you are talking about more than one
physical drive, on the other physical drive.
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That's what I do.
If you have just one physical drive, that is one good reason for
more than one partition on that drive, but that obviously wont
provide any protection against failure of the physical drive. Agree absolutely!


Yep, I dont either for the same reason. I do however
have the files that I'll slash my wrists if I lose on CDs,
each one on more than one CDR. That doesnt need
anything like as many CDs as a crude image for backup.
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don't know about wrist slashing, but I would be a bit miffed!
That wont provide any easy restore
mechanism if the physical drive dies. Agreed.

The trouble is that if you have the image in a
different partition on the same physical drive, it
wont be any use ot you if the physical drive dies. Agreed.


I keep the stuff I'll slash my wrists if I lose on CDs, and never
on just a single CD. I keep one of the copys out of the house,
so even if the house burns down, I will still have that data.

I use images too and mostly keep them on other
drives on other PCs on the network. That way
if a physical drive dies you can just do a quick
restore of the image onto the replacement drive.

I basically buy bigger drives than I need every time
I buy a new drive so that there is extra space for
the image files of other systems on the network.
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It seems I've got it right then. I have 3 separate drives, 1 for OS and
programs, 1 for image and 1st stage data backup, and 1 for video editing
stuff.
I guess I got the wrong end of the stick when I joined this thread, as I
didn't see the point of just 1 drive with everything on it.
Thanks Rod.
 
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