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[Robert L. Holtzer]

An excellent caution.  I prefer multiple hard drives and then virtual 
partitioning to create whatever partitions seem appropriate.  I have two 
computers with RAID capability but have found the RAID mirroring to be less 
stable than expected.  Backing up critical data on the second physical 
drive has proven beneficial a time or two!

Bob Holtzer

At 01:31 PM 4/7/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>To respond to both on why use small drives for OS and then larger for 
>whatever. First, Microsoft created folders for such and that is more 
>efficient than multiple drives. On current hard drives and OS the more you 
>have of these drives the more resources are required from your system and 
>that means less efficient. These are not physical drives and if the drives 
>fails all is lost. I say this just to let you know you are creating a 
>bigger demand on your system plus to let you know of the total loss if the 
>hard drives fails. One other factor to consider is the hd cache and that 
>can cause real problems if using a small drive C: and getting it full.
>jest my $ 0.02
>
>Wayne
>
>
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