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rowan · 03-13-2007, 10:54 PM

In the not so distant past partitioning was necessary because FAT16 had a 2Gb limit, which meant drives larger than that had to be split. Partitioning under FAT32 or NTFS is probably not worth it. FWIW, I have two RAID arrays (using multiple drives to appear as one) and neither are partitioned. One is 600Gb, the other is 640Gb. If you partition and assign uses to each partition you'll inevitably end up with one partition full, and wishing you'd made it larger.

03-13-2007, 10:54 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	In the not so distant past partitioning was necessary because FAT16 had a 2Gb limit, which meant drives larger than that had to be split. Partitioning under FAT32 or NTFS is probably not worth it. FWIW, I have two RAID arrays (using multiple drives to appear as one) and neither are partitioned. One is 600Gb, the other is 640Gb. If you partition and assign uses to each partition you'll inevitably end up with one partition full, and wishing you'd made it larger.