partitioning SSD

[masterus]

Hello Everyone

Did you partition your SSD
If yes , how many partitions have you

Regards,

[erik]

nope.   it was tough for me to say how much the c:\ partition would grow so i left it as one big 64GB block and created folders for whatever i needed on the drive at all times.   once i get a bigger drive (128MB or 256MB SSD) then i'll partition it.   with 64GB i can't see any benefit in splitting it up aside from slightly easier organization.   besides, system folders can always be hidden since they don't need to be accessed all the time.

[SHoTTa35]

hehe.. a 128MB SSD huh.. guess you couldn't do much partitioning in the first place.

As for me, i would probably split it for my OS and data alone.

[beq]

I ended up partitioning the 64GB SSD into two partitions.

I schedule imaging on the main C: partition, and put in the second partition all the big files that I don't need to image... As in multiple Outlook PST archives 5-10GB each, music and video files.

FYI I image to a 60GB 1.8" USB HDD and use StorageCraft's ShadowProtect.

[royhuang]

***It's really important*** to partition your hard drive. Normally, you should have 2: one for your OS and application installation, and another for your personal data. The reason is that should the OS fail you can always restore/reinstall it without it touching the contents of your 2nd partition! I learned my lesson the hard way when I accidentally deleted a critical Win XP system file and had to burn a Ubuntu boot disk, remember what was important to copy to a USB stick, etc...

For computers with normal platter HDs, I usually create a smaller (say 10 gig) partition to which I point all "temporary" data & caches: from Internet Explorer, Firerox, Windows Temp folders, CD Burning, etc. Since I like to defrag my HD to keep optimal read/write times, especially on the boot partition--all this is moot on the X300 w/ the SSD--I try to move all dynamic data to the temporary partition. --> Let me know if you need help...

[masterus]

@royhuang : exactly..I have T43 and T43p , in both have 7K80-60 Toschiba HDD.On both I set up 2 partitions.

1) OS,antivirus,drivers,codecs
2)Program files for external apps like: office,skype,etc.. , personal data like My Documents

So in the case of crash..my personal data are safe

Just needed to know if you had any problems with partitioning SSD.

Regards,

[erik]

So in the case of crash..my personal data are safe

if the drive crashes then all of your data is lost, regardless of it being on a separate partition.

regular backups are the only safeguard in the event of a full disk failure no matter how many partitions are on the drive.

[pksw]

Erik is spot on - if the data is on one physical drive and it has a hardware failure, it doesn't matter how many partitions the drive has.

I used to do what RoyHuang is advocating - OS + installs on C:\ and data on D:\. However, I found that creating a bootable USB stick with a minimal Windows environment (such as BartPE) will get you out of sticky situations.

You can always boot off the USB stick (or CDROM) and have full access to the files on the hard disk, if it is just a Windows error preventing booting.

So I cannot see the benefit in partitioning a drive these days, as everyone should already be backing up to a separate drive.