How do you manage multiple drives?

JulyKnot

My new laptop has two drives ( one of which a small ssd).

How do you organize your stuff?
My videos and photos folders are too big for the ssd drive so I put them in the larger D drive. My documents folder is ok size-wise so left that on the C drive.
Have I done things right? Is that what you tend to do and put up with the default photo and video folders looking as though they are empty? eg when accessing photo or video from metro screen ( W8)

InsideInsurance

Medium size SSD - operating system, programs/applications, virtual memory and cache

V. large conventional - everything else

The above is how I organise things, if working on large video work or something similar I will copy it from the conventional drive to the SSD first work on it and then delete the copies after I'm finished

fwor

I have a small SSD and large conventional drive, and I apply the rule that everything that I might want to backup goes on the conventional drive, and the SSD is purely for system files.

That way I don't need to worry if the SSD fails (had one die on me already), as I just re-install the OS/apps and all my user data is still there on the (backed up) larger drive.

Cisco001

OS/ program on SSD. Everything else on HDD

Nilrem

I normally have the OS + main apps on one drive/partition
Then have games on another drive (usually a fast one)
Documents and everything else on other drives/partitions.

I also have one internal drive that is there basically for a fast backup of my other drives (so I can quickly copy my documents. emails etc over to it every week or so, in addition to my monthly backup to an external drive)

One of the main things to remember is to put your "my documents" folder on a non OS drive/partition - that way if you ever have to reinstal the machine, or use a "restore" disk that wipes the OS partition your documents are likely to be safe.

esuhl

On my main PC I have five drives with the following partitions.

Drive 0:
100GB Windows XP OS
75GB / (Arch Linux OS root)
250GB Windows 7 OS
63MB /boot
75GB /home
420GB Junk
12GB FAT32 (for casual transfers of files between OSes)
510MB /swap

Disk 1:
100GB Data
25GB Music
175GB Video

Disk 2:
300GB Backup A

Disk 3:
300GB Backup B

Disk 4:
60GB Encrypted financial/personal files

I back up disks 1 & 4 onto drives 2 & 3. I would backup /home, but I don't have anything important there -- most of my "day to day" personal files are synchronised between the three OSes (and my other machines) using Dropbox.

I use NTFS for all drives except the FAT32 one, and the Linux ones (which are all ext3 except /boot which is ext2 and the swap partition which is obviously swapfs).