I currently have a 30 Gig drive with XP Pro. All as one partition. I have just purchased an 80 Gig drive and an DVD recorder. I plan to do some video editing and DVD burning so I will need plenty of space and processing power. How should I configure my setup with the new hardware I have now?
I have the following hard drives:
Seagate ST330640A
30 GB
Ultra ATA/66
7200 RPM
8.2 ms average access (read)
2 MB buffer
E-IDE/ATAPI interface
Western Digital WD800JB
80 GB
Ultra ATA/100
7200 RPM
8.9 ms average access (read)
2 MB buffer
E-IDE/ATAPI interface
And I have a Memorex 32023282 dual format DVD recorder.
Oh and I have 512MB or RAM.
How should I configure my drives? Which drive to use for my XP Pro installation? Do I need a swap file partition? Do I need a partition on each hard drive to split my swap file up between the two drives? Which drive do I place my movie files on that I'll be burning to DVD? Which controllers do each drive need to be placed on?
Is this a good idea?
Partition the 80 GB as follows:
C: 4 GB for OS installation (XP Pro)
Z: 1 GB for swap file
D: Remaining space for data (documents, videos, music, etc.)
Partition the 30 GB as follows:
Y: 1 GB for swap file
E: Remaining space for data (documents, videos, music, etc.)
Slit my swap file up between the two physical drives.
Should I place my videos in progress for editing on the D: (80 GB drive, OS) drive and archive them on E: (30 GB drive) after I burn them to DVD? Or vice versa?
I have the following hard drives:
Seagate ST330640A
30 GB
Ultra ATA/66
7200 RPM
8.2 ms average access (read)
2 MB buffer
E-IDE/ATAPI interface
Western Digital WD800JB
80 GB
Ultra ATA/100
7200 RPM
8.9 ms average access (read)
2 MB buffer
E-IDE/ATAPI interface
And I have a Memorex 32023282 dual format DVD recorder.
Oh and I have 512MB or RAM.
How should I configure my drives? Which drive to use for my XP Pro installation? Do I need a swap file partition? Do I need a partition on each hard drive to split my swap file up between the two drives? Which drive do I place my movie files on that I'll be burning to DVD? Which controllers do each drive need to be placed on?
Is this a good idea?
Partition the 80 GB as follows:
C: 4 GB for OS installation (XP Pro)
Z: 1 GB for swap file
D: Remaining space for data (documents, videos, music, etc.)
Partition the 30 GB as follows:
Y: 1 GB for swap file
E: Remaining space for data (documents, videos, music, etc.)
Slit my swap file up between the two physical drives.
Should I place my videos in progress for editing on the D: (80 GB drive, OS) drive and archive them on E: (30 GB drive) after I burn them to DVD? Or vice versa?