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I'm having a new computer built. It has a 200 gig hard drive and the guy building it thinks that it would benefit me if he partitioned it so that each of my major softwares (Photoshop, Coreldraw, Omega, VMP, etc) have their own drive/partition. They wouldn't have to share DLL's this way.
ps. This computer is very new technology. It has the Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard, AMD 3200 processor, 1 gig ECCram, and NVidia GeForce 6600 graphics card.
The case is so huge that it has its own rollers and its water cooled.
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-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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sounds wierd to me. Loading several programs on one partition has worked fine for me (& everyone else I ever heard of) for 20 years. Maybe one partition to load all your data on... seperate from all your applications on the other partition, but even then, if your are building it, I'd put in 2 complete seperate drives. 200 gig isn't that much anymore with the kind of files you'll be running on your Roland
High spped CPU's and memory and fast busses and even faster hard drives don't need this multi partition stuff any more..
Its an old holdover from the win 98 SE days when access to large drive sizes was inefficient and restricitve....
And as doug says,, With possible huge sized graphics file then two hard drives is good. Two drives are especially good when rendering video, and graphics.
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Partitions are useless, there never was a performance gain using partitions.
If you want performance, use multiple drives. One for the operating system, one for the programs and another one for data storage and Virtual Memory/Scratch Disk use.
By the way, 1 GIG RAM isn't enough. 2 Gig minimum for a workstation.
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I had him put only 1 gig ram into it to help keep the cost within my price range. I figured that I can add more later. Plus I have 256 ram on the graphics card.
I won't be storing anything on this computer but software and emails. All work files are saved on the server. He wanted to load windows on C:, another partition for the scratch disk, another for the sofwares.
I don't think that he wanted to create a partition for software so much for performance but more to help isolate problems that could be created with shared DLL's and other shared files. He explaned it to me at the time and it sounded logical then but now I don't remember all the details.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Well partioning hard drives has not been needed for quite a long time. I have two 125gig SATA hard drives setup as a raid as my C: drive with windows and all my main applications. I then have two ide hard drives one is 60 gig and the other is 250gig I use them to store my files. I figure my main SATA hard drives are doing the most work so they may fail first so I do not care all my work is saved seperately on the ide hard drives. I have all my hard drives setup full size no partitions. Hard drives are so cheep when you think about how much time and labour is involved with dealing with backups for the average user I say just back up to a second hard drive. I think I would ask your tech guy to prove to you where he finds his information from.
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Paid by da hour. Partitioning drives is good for at least two more hours.. and all it does is set there on da bench and do its own calculations. , Good techs can operate many machines if they are doing formats, partitioning and soft installs. All of them at $80 bux an hour,,
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quote: I don't think that he wanted to create a partition for software so much for performance but more to help isolate problems that could be created with shared DLL's and other shared files.
Not really a valid reason for the partioning, Laura.
A .DLL file is a support file and is used by one or more programs, usually located within the Windows system folder. If several parts of a program need to perform the same action (example: viewing jpegs within your browser or Corel & Adobe applications), that action may be placed into a .DLL file (library) that the various program parts can all use. This saves space and makes it easier when that particular routine needs to be updated.
Any time you install a new program, its wise to back up your .DLL files. They are succeptable to viruses and can cause problems if corrupted.
Since you're going to be saving the files you've created on the server, having all the programs on your C drive will make things run faster and smoother.
IMHO, it seems like overkill... Rapid
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a 200 gig :\C is ok in its self no need to partition unless you are running multiply OS. rather then partition...spend another $100 and get a :\D drive....which is another 200 gig HARD DRIVE...you will be futher ahead.
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I think that I will switch this machine over to store all info so that I can get a external hard drive and then use it to back up files every night. Then I can just grab it and run if there is a fire or something.
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Hey Laura, I would recommend 2 smaller (40 to 80 gig) hard drives versus partitioning one large one. Programs go on one and working designs are saved on the other. All completed designs should be saved on the server for archiving and back up. A hard drive can only access a limited amount of information. By partitioning the hard drive you are creating a bottleneck by forcing the drive to work in 2 seperate locations, limiting the amount of information it can read and write. While this may not be a problem when woking on documents and spread sheets, it will become an issue when you're working on a 100+ meg print.
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