Pls advise on my partition plan

MG
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m_ginty
Jul 14, 2004
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Hi, I don’t use PS or Illustrator myself but I am changing the partitions on a users XP PC as he has been complaining of performance issues.
I’ve read quite a bit on partitioning for PS and Illustrator so think I’ve got it fairly covered but would like some thoughts on the following config:
(we have bought a new 18gb/ 15k rpm SCSI and he had a 80gb/ 702 rpm IDE HD already present which is being wiped + 1gb RAM)
SCSI drive = HDD0
IDE drive = HDD1

HDD0:
C: (9gb) – OS
D: (50mb) – emergency pagefile
E: (4gb) – program files such as MS Office/ FTP
F: (remainder) – Data 1

HDD1
G:(2gb)- Adobe and Illustrator prgrm files
H:(4gb) – Pagefile partition
R:(64gb) – Data 2
S:(10gb) – scratch disk

Or, should I consider almost swapping it around and have the scratch and pagefile only on the faster (in terms of seek time) scsi drive with program files and data on the slower IDE drive? Or neglible difference?
TIA
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dave_milbut
Jul 14, 2004
Pls advise on my partition plan

you’re going to go nuts with all those partitions. all that for very little (if any) performance gains.
B
BobLevine
Jul 14, 2004
There’s no need to separate different programs. Here’s what I have:

O/S
Programs
Data 1
Data 2
Data 3

And on a separate harddrive: swap file and spare data storage space.

BTW, just exactly what kind of emergency do you think you can solve with a 50 meg partition?

Bob
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m_ginty
Jul 14, 2004
OK, so not much gain in terms of perfomance gains then? But I was under the impression that scratch is best on different physical disk and I know that pagefile is. Is that not the case? To decrease I could put normal program files and OS on same partition but I like to keep data separate from the OS partition and ideally on separate physical disk in case of drive or OS failure. It’s not that much bother creating these partitions and we have the drives available for him.
MG
m_ginty
Jul 14, 2004
BTW, just exactly what kind of emergency do you think you can solve with
a 50 meg partition<< well it’s not really for emergency use as such (my bad terminology) but just there so that windows doesn’t complain that one doesn’t exist or try and make one where I don’t want one. So, going back to the config, placing OS/ program files and data on the larger IDE drive and put scratch/ swap and spare data on the faster SCSI drive would be preferable? How large should scrath disk be or does it just eat space? thanks
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LenHewitt
Jul 14, 2004
M-G,

Forget about the D: partition – just let the o/s make a minimum allowable pagefile on the %system% drive ( 2- 5 Mbyte) and the rest on your pagefile partition
MG
m_ginty
Jul 14, 2004
Thanks for all the pointers. Very helpful and am going to lessen the partitions so that OS/Program Files/Data 1 (archive)/Data 2 (current) are on the larger ide drive as c:/d:/e:/f:
Placing the pagefile on g: and scratch on s:
Cheers

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