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liquidmonkey · 07-03-2009, 01:15 PM

am just wondering with HDD's getting so massive in size these days (1TB and 2TB internal drives) if its smarter to split the drive into smaller partitions?

my thinking is that if i have, let's say a 2TB drive and split it up into 4 partitions of 500gig yeah and then......'IF' the drive should fail i won't loose EVERYTHING but only that one partition that failed leaving the other partitions healthy and usable????

does that make any sense and more importantly, is that possible? or if a drive fails, everything is LOST

07-03-2009, 01:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
liquidmonkey Silver Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 165	large HDD's and multiple partitions question??? am just wondering with HDD's getting so massive in size these days (1TB and 2TB internal drives) if its smarter to split the drive into smaller partitions? my thinking is that if i have, let's say a 2TB drive and split it up into 4 partitions of 500gig yeah and then......'IF' the drive should fail i won't loose EVERYTHING but only that one partition that failed leaving the other partitions healthy and usable???? does that make any sense and more importantly, is that possible? or if a drive fails, everything is LOST __________________ VISTA Ultimate SP2 64bit 2 x 24" LG Monitors Intel Core i7 920 with Xigmatek HDT-S1283 ASUS P6T WS PRO 12gigs of OCZ Gold XTC Triple Channel 6x2gig DDR3 1333MHz PC12800 XFX Nvidia GTX 260 core 216 Corsair TX750W Cooler Master 690 HDD Total = 4.5 TB