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Old 07-03-2009, 01:15 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Question 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
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Old 07-03-2009, 09:02 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Partitioning into smaller chunks is a grey area

On the one hand if part of the platter gets scratched, it'll only affect the partition that was assigned that region of the drive

On the other hand if something happens to the PCB or if it no longer spins, then partitioning wont matter for much

Personally I've had scorched PCBs, drives that no longer spin up, and times when parts of the drive are no longer functioning, it's up to you
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The time it would take to format a 2TB drive would be about a day. I would rather partition it into like 3 partitions. A 50 gb for windows and programs, and 2 data partitions.
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Doubt that...took me 1 hour to format and install Vista on a 500GB so around 4 hours or so.
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I was overexaggerating a little bit. lol Just meaning that I have more important things to do besides waiting that long for a drive to format.
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