How should I put my drives in my computer?

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Jnesses

Discussion Starter · Dec 5, 2009

I will be having four drives:
an 80gb. SE16 Caviar Blue
a 500gb. SE16 Caviar Blue
a 1tb. F3 Samsung
and an 80gb. SSD

How should I use these drives (like i can have the 1tb. be movies only, and the ssd as a boot drive, etc.) , and what letters should I assign them? And should I paration them or not?

I have never had more than 1 hard drive installed at a time, so I am kind of new at this...

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KitRae

· #2 · Dec 5, 2009

80 SSD - Boot Disc (C)
80GB - Documents (D)
500GB - Games/Various (E)
1TB - Movies (F)

Personally that is what I would do

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rsfkevski

· #3 · Dec 5, 2009

I, personally wouldn't partition them. As far as letters, you're choice on that. My main drive array is, of course, c:/. Others could be labeled as x, y, and z

My 1.5TB HDD is strictly movies, home movies, pictures, etc. etc. I would suggest using the F3 for multimedia, the 80GB and 500GB Caviars, you can use as you like. Might want to consider using one specific drive as backup. Enjoy your multitude of space

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blupupher

· #4 · Dec 5, 2009

I would use the SSD as boot (it will be assigned C: drive when installing the OS).
As for the others, depends on how much stuff you have as to what to use them for. You could use the other 80 gig to keep a constant backup of the SSD.
Use the 500 as a storage of whatever and the 1 tb as a movies only.

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Jnesses

Discussion Starter · #5 · Dec 5, 2009

Thanks for giving me some ideas, I will make the 1tb. for games, since its my 2nd fastest drive, and my 500gb. as a movie backup/document drive, and my 80gb. as a backup drive.

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sti_boy

· #6 · Dec 5, 2009

Why wouldn't you put games on the SSD? Many folks on this forum rationalize the SSD purchase for decreasing game load times. I have a 150GB raptor and have all my apps and games installed on this drive and I've still only used 32GB after a couple of years.

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