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Hey, you computer whizzes!; i need some advice
Topic Started: September 16, 2008, 9:04 pm (61 Views)
Blue Phoenix
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220377

My son likes his new laptop, but it seems like the 400 Gig harddrive capacity is split into four 90+ separate drives.

Now, when he's installing stuff, how should he disburse it among those four drives? Primarily, he has music, games, images, you know; media and large stuff. He doesn't want to load up a drive too much and make it run slowly while the remaining drives have hardly been touched. How should he separate things?

Should he alternate between drives, or fill up one to a certain amount, or what? Everybody tell me how you handle it, please?

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ive never hread of them splitting it up between 4 mini drives, thats very werid.
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i'm thinking it's physically two 200Gig drives that have been divided. i've never seen a place to that without you asking for it, but then what do i know? :lol this is primarily a gamer's laptop; maybe they thought it would keep things more organized than having 200Gig caverns.


...still looking to get my questions answered, though... anybody?

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I'm no expert, but my thoughts would be to put anything that needs the most speed on the same drive partition that Windows is installed on, since that will be the deck's 'primary' drive. So, most likely for that one: games. Put large media (movies and the like) onto its own drive and maybe music & images onto another. Maybe use the remaining partition for a sort of "deep storage", things that he doesn't get into very often, as well as any school work or things like that. Just my thoughts.

I can kind of empathize with this, though: when I bought my current computer it came, without prompting or request, as a single 80 gig drive, partitioned into a 60 gig and a 20 gig. Kind of awkward, but I can live with it (and have since outgrown the 80 gig drive anyway and had to buy an external hard drive to keep pace...which is, itself, almost full now.)
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thanks, guys! i appreciate the ideas.

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*pats LS on the head* that's okay, dear, i like hearing from you even when you don't have anything to say. ;)

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