{"id":45064,"date":"2013-08-07T12:59:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T12:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=45064"},"modified":"2013-08-07T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T12:59:11","slug":"should-you-seperate-your-data-into-partitions-or-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/should-you-seperate-your-data-into-partitions-or-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Seperate Your Data into Partitions or Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>by Richard Pedersen for Daves Computer Tips<\/p>\n<h3>Should You Seperate Your Data into Partitions or Folders<\/h3>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\">Two schools of thought on the best way to organize your data, programs and operating system &#8211; hard drive partitioning versus folder management.&#8211;PC Pitstop.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hard Drive Partitions vs Folders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: These are only my opinions. Take them for what they may be worth. ~ Richard<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are a couple main viewpoints regarding hard drive partitioning versus folder management. Neither one is right or wrong. It is simply a difference in the way people tend to look at things.<br \/>\nOne school of thought, mine included, says that it is a good idea to separate the operating system from the programs and the programs from the data they generate. This is accomplished by partitioning the hard drive so as to keep these things separated. This can also be accomplished with a folder system.<br \/>\nThe other group will say the same thing can be accomplished with folders, thereby keeping everything on one partition. Personally, I don\u2019t see the advantage to this approach. It may be simpler in some respects, but the advantages of partitioning your HDD are lost, as I see it.<br \/>\nThe bottom line is that these are two approaches to the same solution: separation of data, programs, and the operating system<br \/>\nHere we go-<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say that you want to install Windows 7 on your multi-terabyte Hard Disk Drive (HDD). You could install it and the Operating System (OS) wouldn\u2019t have a problem with that.<br \/>\nI, on the other hand, have a problem with that. The trouble is that Windows will ultimately install everything else to that hard drive and therein lies the rub. All the programs and data and games will all get put on that same partition. It\u2019s a mess, especially when it comes to backing up your files and photos and music and movies and databases and spreadsheets and so forth, ad infinitum. Another problem becomes apparent when you don\u2019t have a good file-naming convention. If you are not consistent in your methods, it will soon become difficult if not impossible to find anything at all.<br \/>\nWouldn\u2019t it be nice to know that all your favorite family pictures can be found by going to the family pictures partition, or maybe, all your videos are on a video partition, or maybe, all your work documents are on the same work-oriented partition? To me, that is a well thought-out system.<\/p>\n<p>In all fairness to those who prefer a single drive divided by way of folders approach, I must agree that is is an option. I happen to prefer HDD partitions. That\u2019s just me. I\u2019m not sure there is a definitive  advantage by using folders over partitions. Perhaps it\u2019s simply a personal choice.<br \/>\nNote: I don\u2019t believe for a minute that partitioning a hard drive will in any way speed things up. It is merely a method to help you organize your data, make your backups easier to deal with, and nothing more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davescomputertips.com\/windows-hard-drive-partitions-vs-folders-a-couple-options\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article Continued Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These excerpts are shared with permission from davescomputertips.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hdpart150.jpg\" alt=\"hdpart150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45071\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two schools of thought on the best way to organize your data, programs and operating system &#8211; hard drive partitioning versus folder management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[4534],"class_list":["post-45064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daves-computer-tips","tag-hard-drive-partitions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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