----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Dodge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'The Hardware List'" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:41 PM
Subject: [H] Hard drives, who says size doesn't matter?
Isn't it funny how nowadays it is time to think about getting a new drive
or
at least a larger one when you drop below 10 gigs remaining????
In the Windows 95 days we knew that performance dropped when the hard drive
space dropped to 50 MB or lower on the partition that hosted the operating
system. My experience with Windows XP tells me that point is when you have
used half or more of the space on the partition that hosts the operating
system and/or when you have loaded over half of your RAM. This is why I like
to use a partition of at least 20 GB for the operating system on 40 GB
drives, 30 GB on 60 GB drives, 40 GB on 80 GB drives, and no more than 50 GB
on larger drives to host the operating system.
My prices on SATA hard drives range from $90.00 for an 80 GB to $130.00 for
a 250 GB, so it just does not make sense to buy less than the 250 GB.
Chuck
