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    Partitioning Secondary HDD

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by mortalcombat, Jun 29, 2012.

  1. mortalcombat

    mortalcombat Notebook Consultant

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    I will be getting a 128GB Crucial M4 as my main drive and a 750GB secondary drive. Should I partition the second drive?

    What are the pros/cons? Reasons to partition?
     
    mortalcombat, Jun 29, 2012
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  2. SlaughteredLamb

    SlaughteredLamb Notebook Enthusiast

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    Back in the day with slower drives, I remember me and lots of others used to partition our drives mainly to install the OS on one partition and everything else would sit on the other. If anything were to stuff up you could format just the partition with the OS on it and not lose all your other files. I don't partition anymore due to having 2 drives.
     
    SlaughteredLamb, Jun 29, 2012
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  3. Tmets

    Tmets De-evolving to Amoeba

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    There is no need to partition unless you have a specific reason. If you had only one drive, then yes, your setup, don't bother.
     
    Tmets, Jun 29, 2012
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    crest54 Newbie

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    If you wanted to try to install a Linux distribution to your hardware and fiddle around with it without worrying about adding wear to the SSD, you could always later partition the HDD and install the OS there. (At least that's what I hope to do with Linux Mint 13 after I get my laptop...)
     
    crest54, Jul 1, 2012
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