Allocating Storage space for different files

[joshua robinson]

been thinking on getting different HDD's for video's, photo's etc. but instead of getting different HDD's is there a way to allocate a chunk of storage instead of spending more money on HDD's ? 

[Darkstar88]

You could create partitions on the drive.

[joshua robinson]

are there any videos on this ?

[joshua robinson]

2 minutes ago, Darkstar88 said:

You could create partitions on the drive.

are there any videos on this ?

[mariushm]

What would be the point?

 

If you really have to, you can create partitions on each drive and copy videos on one partition (let's say V:) , music in another partition (let's say M: for music or S: for sound) and so on.

Another solution would be to create multiple users and allocate disk quota to each user, and copy music to a folder as a user, videos as another user and so on .. the "administrator" account would be able to access all folders... more runaround and weird but it would work.

 

you could also just copy the files mixed and once a week use a defrgmenting tool to defragment the drive . o&o defrag would allow you to use "zone filling", where you could create several "zones" on a drive and tell it to put video files in one zone, audio files in a second zone, photos in another, and after defragmentation the files will be separated nicely on the hard drive surface..

 

edit:Start > Run > computer management  then go to disk management and there you can create partitions, as big or as small as you wish

[Darkstar88]

let me try to find one. what os are you on? 

[Darkstar88]

 here is one I found

[joshua robinson]

1 minute ago, Darkstar88 said:

let me try to find one. what os are you on? 

Windows 8.1 Pro

[joshua robinson]

9 minutes ago, Darkstar88 said:

 here is one I found

this will really help Darkstar88 cheers

 

[Darkstar88]

20 minutes ago, joshua robinson said:

this will really help Darkstar88 cheers

 

be careful please dont format your active partitions lmao

[corrado33]

What are you trying to accomplish? If organization why not just create folders? Why do you want separate "drives" for each media type? Seems... overcomplicated, unless you're transporting those drives around with you.

 

"Oh I should take my movie drive with me today, "so and so" wanted to watch this movie that I have."