Hard Drive Partitioning

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ogetnom27

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I recently installed a 200GB hard drive.I am wondering if I can or should dedicate all of my downloads from file sharing networks to this drive exclusively?Is this possible? If so, what should I set up for partitions?(my master is a 20GB)I'm using 200GB as a slave.RAM speed is 1 GB.Computer is a DELL 4500 w/ Pentium 4 @/ 1.8 GHz. I have a ton of home videos I am having transferred to discs.And will be editing and storing them as well should these go on the 200 as well? Thanks for any info, MB
 
First of all, you CAN direct all downloads from the file sharing programs to whatever location or HD you want, just change the destination folder of your file sharing program and it will automatically save everything you download there. Usually your share folder is the same folder you are downloading to, so just change the path to the new HD, this is possible.

You SHOULD do this, this is totally up to you, but it's logic, you are downloading and you have a 20 GB and a 200 GB hard disks, so logic says that you download to the 200 GB one. It's up to you anyway, just keep some free space for te windows to operate on the 20 GB disk :D That's all.
 
The 200GB hard drive would be much faster then the 20GB, the best thing perfomance wise would be to make 2 partitions, a 30Gb and a 170Gb, use the 30Gb for a OS and the 170 for downloads.

You are going to notice a huge speed boost from the 20Gb.
 
.I am wondering if I can or should dedicate all of my downloads from file sharing networks to this drive exclusively?
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Yes

If so, what should I set up for partitions?
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Whatever you want, doesnt horribly matter all that much

The 200GB hard drive would be much faster then the 20GB
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In this case you're probably right but you cant make a statement like that based only on drivesize.
 
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