Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 02:42:57 06/03/04
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Partitioning a large drive does help in speed for sure. I have many drives in my system and _all_ are partitioned into smaller partitions except my 250gb drive that I juse purchased and that was for tablebases alone. I use about 240gb currently, and I am downloading quite a few more tonight, and during the day tomorrow. Once I finish downloading I should have roughly around 400GB of tablebases. I am betting more programs will be supporting the 6man tbs other than Hiarcs and Crafty. My "main" (80GB as well)drive is set up like this: C:(20gb) - All applications. Even my chess programs. D:(35gb) - Stored databases, chess games, and zips of programs. e:(20gb) - Music, videos, pictures, and an image of the C drive Then I have more drives dedicated to strictly tablebases. I find it easier that way, and fragmentation is very low, if any at all. If anything ever happens I just format the C, and install the image from the E drive, and everything is set to go. Instead of installing Windows over and over, the image takes roughly 25 mins to install, instead of hours re-installing the OS and all my programs. Take my advice and invest in a good imaging program like Norton Ghost, or PowerQuest Drive Image Pro. I purchased both, and they're worth more than their weight in gold. I don't know what I would do without them. Also a good defragger like PerfectDisk, or DiskKeeper will keep everything nice and tidy. Peter
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