Usenet_area_"Cs.I.Pc"@watmath.waterloo.edu (01/07/88)
From Usenet: gargoyle!ihnp4!ihlpa!jimx From: jimx@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Advantages/Disadvantages to multiple logical drives Keywords: hard disk partitioning,80386 Message-ID: <6768@ihlpa.ATT.COM> Date: 7 Jan 88 21:24:13 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 18 I have an 80386 machine with a 130-Meg hard drive that I am about to set up as a 3COM PC Server. What I would like to know is if there is any advantage to setting up multiple logical drives (D:, E:, f:, G:...) as opposed to just one or two (my initial thought is to have C: for system and shared application files, and D: for general user directories). On the other hand, are there disadvantages, obvious or otherwise, to the multiple drive arrangement (or two drive, for that matter)? Would the several drives make disk access any faster? This is the first time for me, setting this up, so if anyone has any particular hints and suggestions, I would not mind receiving those as well. We are using 3COM 3+ Share, Mail, etc. If the responses warrant, I will post a summary. Thanks in advance, Jim Harris ihnp4!ihlpa!jimx --- via UGate v1.6 * Origin: watmath (221/163)
jimx@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Harris) (01/08/88)
I have an 80386 machine with a 130-Meg hard drive that I am about to set up as a 3COM PC Server. What I would like to know is if there is any advantage to setting up multiple logical drives (D:, E:, f:, G:...) as opposed to just one or two (my initial thought is to have C: for system and shared application files, and D: for general user directories). On the other hand, are there disadvantages, obvious or otherwise, to the multiple drive arrangement (or two drive, for that matter)? Would the several drives make disk access any faster? This is the first time for me, setting this up, so if anyone has any particular hints and suggestions, I would not mind receiving those as well. We are using 3COM 3+ Share, Mail, etc. If the responses warrant, I will post a summary. Thanks in advance, Jim Harris ihnp4!ihlpa!jimx
markd@wolf.UUCP (Mark Divecchio) (01/10/88)
In article <6768@ihlpa.ATT.COM>, jimx@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Harris) writes: > I have an 80386 machine with a 130-Meg hard drive that I am about > to set up as a 3COM PC Server. What I would like to know is if > there is any advantage to setting up multiple logical drives > (D:, E:, f:, G:...) as opposed to just one or two I have a 70meg HD partitioned into two logical drives. The first is C: and contains all my DOS software, compilers, editors etc. The second is D: and contains all my in-process work. Yesterday, a program which I was working on took a WAB (Wild A** Branch) and wrote all over track 0 thus killing the boot sector and the FATs for part of the C: logical Unit. I used the MACE utility to put the boot sector back and the D: logical drive was alive and intact. So all I really lost was my DOS unit. I formated the C: unit and restored it from backup and I was ready to go. I, of course (!), had everything backedup but this saved me a couple of hours since I didn't have to restore the entire disk. -- --------------------------------- Mark C. DiVecchio 10435 Mountain Glen Terrace, San Diego, CA 92131 K3FWT Home of PC-VT and LPTx 619-549-4056 sdcsvax!man!wolf!markd Bulletin Board 619-549-3927
holtz@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Fred Holtz) (01/10/88)
In article <6768@ihlpa.ATT.COM>, jimx@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Harris) writes: > I have an 80386 machine with a 130-Meg hard drive that I am about > to set up as a 3COM PC Server. What I would like to know is if > there is any advantage to setting up multiple logical drives > (D:, E:, f:, G:...) as opposed to just one or two... The major advantage of multiple logical drives becomes apparent when it is time to back up the disk. If you put everything that doesn't change on one logical drive, then that portion of the disk need only be backed up once (in theory - I would recommend once every few months just in case the backups go sour.) You can then divide the rest of the disk up into areas with different priorities for backups - one area that is to be done every night, a once a week area, etc. I am not sure how having multiple logical drives affects the effeciency of disk requests, but for my own work the advantages would outweigh anything but a noticable delay (and I have never noticed any :-) Fred Holtz holtz@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU