Don't really know too much about hard drives, but I just recently bought an asus g751jt gaming laptop and when I went in to my computer just to get an idea about how everything is set up. I was taking a look at the hard drive and noticed that their is a C Drive (OS) of 350 gb and im left with a D Drive (Data) of 500 gb. Isn't this a bit much for an operating system to have this much space allocated to it. Shouldn't I partition the drive or something so that I can have more space to actually use the 1TB hard drive?
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http://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_ROG_G751JT/specifications/
Yes, you have a 1 TB hard drive that they partitioned into 2 partitions. You end up with the same amount of space to use.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-windows-vista/
You can resize the partitions if this works better for you.
Yes, you have a 1 TB hard drive that they partitioned into 2 partitions. You end up with the same amount of space to use.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-windows-vista/
You can resize the partitions if this works better for you.
They split the partitions that way for general use.
You can resize the partitions how ever you choose using easus or paragon partition software.
The OS itself does not use that much space, but all your programs and personal documents also go on that drive. Add to the fact that many people seem to think that the desktop is the only place to store files, it makes more sense for the business to do it this way to deal with the masses as anyone that has specific ways they want their storage will know how to change it
You can resize the partitions how ever you choose using easus or paragon partition software.
The OS itself does not use that much space, but all your programs and personal documents also go on that drive. Add to the fact that many people seem to think that the desktop is the only place to store files, it makes more sense for the business to do it this way to deal with the masses as anyone that has specific ways they want their storage will know how to change it
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With a 1 TB drive, you have plenty of space, so might as well use it. With 70 GB you may run out, so give yourself some more room.
How much space depends on you and your uses.
Windows 7 with prefetch, paging file and hibernation will use 35-45 GB, take into account your programs, and all personal files you want to store on your OS drive. Then I would take that number and double it.
120gb is good baseline but as I said it completely depends on your needs.
Now having 2 partitions does not really gain you anything in performance or life. The only benefit you have is that any files on the other partition will not be lost if you have to reinstall windows. Now if the drive fails then both partitions are gone.
Windows 7 with prefetch, paging file and hibernation will use 35-45 GB, take into account your programs, and all personal files you want to store on your OS drive. Then I would take that number and double it.
120gb is good baseline but as I said it completely depends on your needs.
Now having 2 partitions does not really gain you anything in performance or life. The only benefit you have is that any files on the other partition will not be lost if you have to reinstall windows. Now if the drive fails then both partitions are gone.
The computer is gonna be a daily driver with not too much heavy gaming on it i dont play battlefield or metro plan on it i have a gaming desktop so I will rely on that for my true gaming needs but this is just to be able to game when I'm away from my house for long periods of time
ooooo sorry misunderstood well in that case should i allocate the whole drive for the OS? I kno I have at least maybe 300 gb of stuff that I will possibly dump on it at first. Im not gonna keep it no longer than two years then upgrade again.
based on what you have said I would put OS, normal programs and documents/files on the OS partition and games and media on the second one, and then either backup the files/documents to the second drive or even better to the desktop or a different drive.
Out of that 300gb you said you would load I dont know how much of that falls into what category, with that said I would assume 200GB would be safe for the OS
If you have not already what I would advise doing is getting a 2-4tb drive for the desktop for backups.
I like to use syncback to do weekly file backups and macrium reflect to do entire hard drive backups. You could then share the drive and have all PCs do their backups to this drive. If you wish I can post a script that you can put into a batch file and have it clear out all but the newest X disk images so it does not fill the backup drive (I keep 3 of them per PC).
Out of that 300gb you said you would load I dont know how much of that falls into what category, with that said I would assume 200GB would be safe for the OS
If you have not already what I would advise doing is getting a 2-4tb drive for the desktop for backups.
I like to use syncback to do weekly file backups and macrium reflect to do entire hard drive backups. You could then share the drive and have all PCs do their backups to this drive. If you wish I can post a script that you can put into a batch file and have it clear out all but the newest X disk images so it does not fill the backup drive (I keep 3 of them per PC).
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