Paritioning 2 500 GB drives

[ejkeebler]

I've searched some threads, but not finding a clear answer. I'm trying to figure out the best method of partitioning 2 500 GB drives

I was thinking 50GB for a c drive and then with the rest mounting them as sub folders rather than drives? has anyone tried this or is this not a good idea?

also i'm a little confused, should i make 2 movie folders? I basically have 100gb i thought i would mount as my tv, 10 gb as my music, 20 gb as my pictures and then 1 whole drive as my movies, but that leaves me with about 250 gb on the 1st drive and I'm not sure how sage handles that? In mythtv i just created a logical volume and those 2 partitions became 1, can't really do that in windows?

any suggestions?

[SHS]

Why not just get a smalll boot disk a round 20GB and make full use of the 2 500GB with out partitioning them.

[ejkeebler]

That's an idea, but 1, I really don't want to add a 3rd HDD and it still does not address the idea of 2 drives/partitions for videos. In myth i just had 1 folder /videos for all my movies that was made up of 2 partitions, but only 1 folder, I am not sure if a) there is a way to do that in windows and b) if sage even cares?

can I tell sage to look in 2 different folders for movies? If so that is probably all i really need to do.

[gplasky]

Sage doesn't care. I have 6 drives that have a directory for TV recordings, videos, photos and music on each drive.

Partition 50 GB for the OS, the rest partition and format in 64K blocks. Use the 450 GB and the other 500GB as recording drives. A TV1 folder on the 450, a TV2 folder on the 500GB. Depending on what you want, you can put Music1, Video1 and Photo1 on the 450 and Music2, Video2 and Photo2 on the 500GB. Or just TV1 on the 450, TV2 and Music1, Videos1 and Photo1 on the 500. It's really up to you because as far as Sage goes it treats them the same. Let Sage manage your files and you don't even have to think about managing individual files. Just throwing suggestions out there. I know more and different ways will be suggested.

Gerry

[SHS]

Yes with sage you can add min different folders as you want
I have folder like this below on each of my 3 drive I have
My Recording
My DVD
My Video
My Pictures

[GKusnick]

I recommend you don't mount them as NTFS folders since that will likely confuse the free disk space calculations. Just assign a drive letter to each partition and add them to Sage as separate recording directories. Sage will be smart enough to balance the free space between them.

One advantage of putting your boot partition on a separate physical drive is that eventually you're going to want to trade up to even larger recording drives. This will be much simpler if your OS drive can remain undisturbed.