[gentoo-user] Re: 300GB HD

[Peter <pete4abw@comcast.net>]

On Mon, 22 May 2006 17:18:04 -0400, Samuel Baldwin wrote:

> I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD.
> It's a "Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5" IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM"
> 
Great!

I have a 200G primary and 80G secondary drive. Both IDE.

Here are my comments.

Well, I would up your PS to at least 400 Watts. Not that the drive would
use it, but most newer CPUs need at least 400.

While I understand the other poster's concern for the size of the drive,
I disagree. It's a reality today, that data is large -- music files,
videos, etc. What _I_ do, is have a second drive installed and backup to
it compressing the data. With the large music files, I offload
periodically to DVD. I backup / once a month, and I back up /home every
night incrementally, weekly incrementally, and full monthly. Good disk
organization is very important with a large drive. Consider splitting your
system and data into partitions. Here's my layout in case you're
interested.

mars linux # mount
/dev/hda5 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
/dev/hda6 on /mnt/tmp type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
/dev/hda7 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
/dev/hda8 on /mnt/src type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
# I keep portage, and other source files on hda8
/dev/hda9 on /mnt/w-dos type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail)
# some old windows and dos and wine stuff here
/dev/hda10 on /mnt/download type ext2 (rw,noatime)
# misc software downloads and patches (mostly windoze)
/dev/hda12 on /mnt/music type ext3 (rw,noatime)
# 60GB of various music files (a lot of live recordings
# in lossless formats)
/dev/hdb5 on /mnt/extra type ext2 (rw,noatime)
# hdb is my backup drive for all except the music.
#hda11 is not shown, but that's my trusty slackware partition

Good luck!


-- 
Peter


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