I just built new PC in following configuration:
Intel i7-4770 CPU
Asus Z87-Plus motherboard
32 G RAM
Nvidia GTX 650 Ti Boost graphics
2x2TB WD Caviar Black 7200 RPM hard drives (WD2002FAEX)
It will run Windows 7x64 as a primary OS.
Main reason for 2 hard drives is not because I need that much space but so that I can keep .VHD-s for virtual machines on the drive other than the main drive.
The reason for 32 GB of RAM is again to run multiple Windows Server VMs at once to experiment with SQL Server and other technologies.
I am now pondering how to partition my main drive. My current work PC and laptop both have 300 GB main partition with about 120 GB used on PC and 140 GB used on laptop. I don't have any huge media collections and I don't game, so game don't use up multiple gigabytes each but I do like demo apps that showcase latest in 3D graphics development. My main usage is for software development.
My partitioning objective is to make things manageable for occasional (weekly?) full/incremental drive image backups on external USB3 hard drive. I don't need to backup, say, latest demo or Linux ISO I've downloaded. I do need my OS, applications I use for work and documents/source code backed up (I will run additional daily file backup just for documents/source code).
So what I am thinking is to make primary partition (C:) 500 GB which should last me "forever". OS, all important applications, documents, source code and anything else that needs to be backed up on regular basis will go there.
Then I will make another 500 GB primary partition (D:) on which all replaceable large downloads will go and non-critical large apps that I don't care to backup will be installed. In general, nothing from D: will be backed up. Also, if I ever need to dual-boot I will probably install second instance of Windows on D:
By this time I already have 3 primary partitions: System Reserved, C: and D:
So in remaining 0.8GB or so I plan to create extended partition where I can create any number of logical drives for any other purpose.
As I mentioned above virtual machines will be on another hard drive and I will not back them up often (if at all - they won't have anything important on them).
What do you think?
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