Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:42:28 06/03/04
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On June 03, 2004 at 05:42:57, Peter Skinner wrote: >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 I can't answer for windows, but for unix this is no longer a good idea (partitioning the drive) if performance is the issue. The only unix reason is to separate file systems so that a file in one filesystem can't grow so large that it consumes all disk space since a file can't grow outside of its original creation filesystem. Unix is very good with its concept of "cylinder groups", which does a very good job of laying out files for optimal performance, without needing manual operator partitioning...
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