Partition C Drive?

DGrob wrote on 3/19/2006, 7:01 PM

I've got a 250 gb C, 400 gb internal D, and 300 gb external J. All Captues and Media on D, all renders to J.

If I allow 40 gigs on C for my operating system, and create a partition 200 gb E partition, does this do anything for me? Are some of you using such a partition (other than another operating system) in your editing? How?

TIA, Darryl

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 3/19/2006, 7:05 PM

It won't do a thing for you performance-wise. It's still the same physical drive so any accesses to either partition must still wait for accesses to the other.

About the only advantage is that you can have a smaller partition to do an image backup of your OS for quick restores if Windows gets hosed.

johnmeyer wrote on 3/19/2006, 8:34 PM

Some recent threads:

Backup and partitioning

NLE system: Seperate System Drive?

TShaw wrote on 3/20/2006, 4:42 PM

"About the only advantage is that you can have a smaller partition to do an image backup of your OS for quick restores if Windows gets hosed"

I had this happen to me last year and the partition saved all my files on the "d: drive" partition. But thats all it will do for you.

Terry