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RE: Partition layout for dual booting halp - Nuuppanaani - 07-17-2014

(07-16-2014, 08:09 AM)EDevil Wrote: What i would do is have 3 partitions on your SSD;
  • Windows (~100GB)
  • Linux (~20GB)
  • Swap (~8GB)
Then RAID 1 your 2 HDD's and put one main Data partition on it to share your documents and important stuff (VM's, ISOS, downloads, games).

Yet again, personal preference right here ^ Your layout works just fine as well.

This is not a bad layout at all, but I do have a few problems with it.
First of all wouldn't the swap partition burn a hole on my ssd?
Also I need all the storage space I can have so RAID 1 isn't really an option, and wouldn't that make the faster hdd bottlenecked by the slower one?

RE: Partition layout for dual booting halp - EDevil - 07-17-2014

(07-17-2014, 09:22 AM)Nuuppanaani Wrote:
(07-16-2014, 08:09 AM)EDevil Wrote: What i would do is have 3 partitions on your SSD;
  • Windows (~100GB)
  • Linux (~20GB)
  • Swap (~8GB)
Then RAID 1 your 2 HDD's and put one main Data partition on it to share your documents and important stuff (VM's, ISOS, downloads, games).

Yet again, personal preference right here ^ Your layout works just fine as well.

This is not a bad layout at all, but I do have a few problems with it.
First of all wouldn't the swap partition burn a hole on my ssd?
Also I need all the storage space I can have so RAID 1 isn't really an option, and wouldn't that make the faster hdd bottlenecked by the slower one?

If you use a shitload of your swap constantly, then indeed moving it to your HDD might be a better idea. And yeah, it would bottleneck the faster HDD. But is that slower HDD that slow then? Tongue

RE: Partition layout for dual booting halp - Nuuppanaani - 07-17-2014

(07-17-2014, 11:51 AM)EDevil Wrote: But is that slower HDD that slow then? Tongue

Yeah, it is.

RE: Partition layout for dual booting halp - jxu - 07-22-2014

(07-15-2014, 05:52 PM)Chibill Wrote: I would use Linux for everything as it can run most games and is much faster then windows but yeah I think your disk layout is good.

>Linux
>Games

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