[dba-Tech] C & D Partitions

FWIW,

I used to have two internal drives--one for programs, one for 
data--and backed up each one to a folder in the other.

I've now got a PC with a 750G HDD, and a SATA HDD docking station 
(toaster), kind of like an external drive. I have a 500G that gets 
cloned once a month via the docking station and Acronis. Once a week, 
I back up the data to another drive in the docking station. By having 
the drives externally, they aren't draining the PC power 
continuously, nor wearing  out prematurely. Works well for me.

I have a netbook that I just use on trips and to carry some apps I 
can work on away from home. Gets sync'd to the PC when I'm home, so 
the PC is the backup for the netbook.

Bob

At 12/5/2009 05:42 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
>Which is of no use at all if your disk crashes since both partitions 
>are on the same physical
>disk.
>
>And since all your settings ie the "user" tree goes on C and since 
>this is the default location
>for just about everything, you do need to back up C regularly as well.
>
>About the only advantage that I can see is that you can back up each 
>drive alternately
>thereby taking half the time and half the backup media space  each 
>time you do a backup.
>
>
>--
>Stuart
>
>On 5 Dec 2009 at 14:24, Rocky Smolin wrote:
>
> > Lately I've seen the D: partition holding the restore stuff - IOW, you can
> > restore your machine to its out of the box .
> > condition with the stuff that's on D:.  Like you used to do with 
> the restore
> > disks that came with every machine.
> >
> > R
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> > Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 12:25 PM
> > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] C & D Partitions
> >
> > I believe that the software would also go into the C: drive in this
> > scenario. D: would be for user data  The main advantage would be from an
> > ease of backup perspective. You back up the D drive where your data is
> > stored frequently. You don't need to back up the C drive since you have the
> > original software distribution media.
> >
> > GK
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Dan Waters <dwaters at usinternet.com> wrote:
> > > I have a friend who just got a new Samsung netbook.  She was advised
> > > to partition the disk into C and D, where the OS (W7) goes into the C
> > > partition, and user data goes into the D partition.
> > >
> > > But where do you install the applications?
> > >
> > > And what is the actual value of using a C and a D partition?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Dan
> > >
> > >
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Maynard, MA