How many partitions do you have?

[montanaguy]

Depends on which computer that I'm using at the time. I have two partitions on the computer that I'm using to type this. On the other computer that I have, I have a 160GB internal hard drive that is split into 4 partitions: C, D, E, and F.

 

[Kins123]

One, and it's called Zeitgeist. Total size is 148GB with 25GB free.

 

[Marbas]

My desktop drive is 200gig divided into 30gigs for programs and the rest for data, mostly music.

My laptop has a 80gig drive divided the same way.

Plus, I have three external drives; a 120gig, a 250gig, and a 400gig (which is my back-up drive). But I'm giving the 250gig one to a friend next week because I don't really need it anymore.

 

[jft245]

I have a total of 5 hard drives(2 internal, 3 external) . The two internal each have two partitions and the externals are all only one.

 

[andysayshi]

Well, I don't want to brag, but I currently have around 8 TBs of storage on external RAID drives, but 1.5-2TB on internal drives across 6 machines. No virtual partitions at all - all my drives are formatted with single partitions.

 

[mike_n_herrin]

i have three internal drives and 2 external. i only have one of the internal drives partitioned. my C drive has a linux partition, a XP partition, and a Vista partition.

 

[winterknight]

80 GB hda, with a small /boot, a 1GB /, and the rest divided between /usr, /var, and /opt.

30GB hdb used as /home.

 

[andysayshi]

8TB??

WTF have you got in 8TB?

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LOL. I'm a video editor, and I make TV commercials/music video/commercial DVDs. (No, not THAT kind of DVD - but everybody asks! )

I store video in an uncompressed format to maintain best possible quality. So a 10 disc DVD box set of a TV show season, for example, can easily take one TB of storage. I usually have several of those jobs running at the same time, hence the crazy amount of storage.

 

[LarsVenice]

I have a 120 gigabyte hard drive partitioned into 50/70 (50 for C drive) and an 80 gigabyte HD partitioned 60/20 (20 for my emergency backup). I also have a 160 gigabyte external HD not partitioned and need to get another one. My brother had a 330 gigabyte HD not partitioned, and he has a bay that will accept another HD to be inserted in the front.

 

[BrandonSBCA]

I'm very picky when it comes to having things on my hard drive, so instead of putting shit on the CD drive I made another one for my stuff. I have three partitions.

B Drive - My Stuff
C Drive - HP C drive
D Drive - Recovery

 

[andysayshi]

@ andysayshi

Can I ask you what Operating System you use? PC or Mac?

I'd love to hear more about your erm configuration

I'm such a geek

Sure!

I use mostly Macs these day, all running OS 10.4. I have a few WinXP PCs for testing PC-specific compatibility issues and such, and for a few mundane office tasks. I have Vista on an Intel Mac just coz I can.

I used to be strictly PC, but Final Cut Pro has developed such a following at my level of the industry that it's hard to hire freelancers and such that DON'T use Final Cut. Ultimately, I'm a complete convert - the Macs are reliable and relatively problem-free. Macs are simply the logical choice for video professionals.

The G5 Power Macs I have only have two internal drive slots, so all these machines have a system drive (250GB) and a secondary storage drive (400GB each).

The newer Intel PowerMacs have a fantastic cable-free drive bay with space for four SATA drives. You can load all four drives into this computer in under 60 seconds! I have a 250GB system drive, then 3 x 750GB drives striped with RAID 0. (If I was building one today I'd use 1TB drives instead of 750GB.) The RAID's performance is awesome - I get 2.1 TB of storage that is fast enough to read and write uncompressed High Def video with ease. I get well in excess of 150MB per second off the RAID.

I also have a bunch of external Ultra320 SCSI RAID drives of varying capacity, the largest is 2TB. These drives are quite fast, but really expensive and getting a bit unreliable in their old age. The SCSI controller cards for the computers are also not cheap. The internal RAIDs in the newer MacPros give better performance at around a quarter of the price!

Everything is networked together with a Gigabit network (standard on Macs) and I just move the external RAID drives between machines when I need to.

That's it!

 

[just_mills]

Two Internal HD's:
250gb & 80gb.

 

[OptimalOptimus]

I have 1 drive in my computer a 20 gig. it's split up into 2 partitions, one 4 gig & 16 gig. I have XP Pro installed on the 4 gig area. I use the 16 gig area to store movies, games, pics and everything else on it. If i get a viruse or anything, i just wipe the 4 gig clean and reinstall XP in it's place. Very simple. i dont' use and anti-virus or firewall other then Xp's. Becuase there useless.

 

[provenlogic]

1 partition on each drive. It's been my experience that the less partitions you have the better .

So that's 6 HDD's, 6 partitions for me.