I never partition the drives. If possible use the fastest drive (7200 rpm) for Windows and a second drive for the swap file. A second slower drive for the swap file results in a faster system compared to one (fast) drive setup.
For backup of photos from USB 2 USB a sync tool is handy for instance archersoft dirsync Toine On 18 August 2011 22:19, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > My budget box will have Windows 7 (Home Premium 64-bit) and Lightroom > 3 installed on it by this weekend, but I thought I would get your > advise on hard drive set-up/partitioning (if necessary) etc. > > I have an internal 7200 rpm Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB drive. I also > have a couple of older/slower internal HDs that I could make use of > (optionally). I think they are a 160GB and a 320GB ATA and PATA drive. > > I also will be using LaCie Minimus 2 TB hard drives externally via USB > 3.0. I plan to put all of my photos on one and use the other for > backup. > > Windows is not my strong suit and this will be my first experience > with Windows 7. I'm mostly wondering how best to make use of the > internal HD(s) as far as partitioning goes or putting what where. This > is not a God Box, so references to stuff I don't have will probably be > less-than-helpful. FWIW, I will be getting Photoshop CS5 in the future > also. Any words of wisdom would be appreciated. > > Darren Addy > Kearney, Nebraska > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
