Western Digital 500 GB Caviar GP Hard Drive Review - Page 4

Chai · 16th Apr 2008, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Lacus

Your system specification should be identical to max. If I'm not mistaken

.By the way what you actually mean by taking up so much space?

I used to assign 20GB for XP, and now I assigned 30GB for Vista, and it's running out of space in 3 days.

My system is similar to his, other than 4GB Corsair, and 8800GTS 512.

Adrian Wong · 16th Apr 2008, 01:49 AM

My Vista installation alone is already taking up over 6GB of space. So 30GB isn't enough if you want to install several office applications and a few games.

Chai · 16th Apr 2008, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

My Vista installation alone is already taking up over 6GB of space. So 30GB isn't enough if you want to install several office applications and a few games.

I do not install games on the same drive. I cleared a lot of temp files, and some hibernation files. Cleared up a lot of space.

Mac Daddy · 16th Apr 2008, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Chai

I do not install games on the same drive. I cleared a lot of temp files, and some hibernation files. Cleared up a lot of space.

I don't install anything on the drive or partition with the OS not even the swap file ...

Chai · 16th Apr 2008, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Mac Daddy

I don't install anything on the drive or partition with the OS not even the swap file ...

Unless you have a dedicated HDD for swap file, it's not recommended because the OS drive usually is at the edge of the platter, which means it's faster.

Dashken · 16th Apr 2008, 09:31 AM

I actually don't care. Set 100GB for the OS partition. Install everything on it as well.

Mac Daddy · 16th Apr 2008, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Chai

Unless you have a dedicated HDD for swap file, it's not recommended because the OS drive usually is at the edge of the platter, which means it's faster.

I have found that setting the swap file to a different HDD than the OS is more efficient

Chai · 16th Apr 2008, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Mac Daddy

I have found that setting the swap file to a different HDD than the OS is more efficient

Ahh...a different HDD...

Lacus · 16th Apr 2008, 10:15 AM

Err, my dying 120gb hdd..I actually give vista a 25gb partition =_=. More than enough atm. Games are installed in the next partition.

Mac Daddy · 16th Apr 2008, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Lacus

Err, my dying 120gb hdd..I actually give vista a 25gb partition =_=. More than enough atm. Games are installed in the next partition.

All I have installed in my Vista partition is what came with it and a few small programs like Acrobat reader ... no games and I am already using 18G of my Vista partition. I think 30G as an absolute minimum without using that partition for games and other programs.

You don't realize how much you will use this partition day to day I found pictures off my camera were taking up some of this space. I didn't even realize I using this partition. DLing pics from your camera is something you do on a regular basis.

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Lacus Super Active Join Date: 28 Mar 2008 Location: Some gundam factory o.o Posts: 1,302 Reputation: 180 Rep Power: 4	Err, my dying 120gb hdd..I actually give vista a 25gb partition =_=. More than enough atm. Games are installed in the next partition.