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Hi
> Are you sure that operation
will benefit from faster storage (as opposed
> to more CPU and/or RAM)?
It is a new computer, it has good processor/RAM and already has the highest memory possible (12Gb), the idea is to help now by speed on the storage device...
Relative to the size of partitions I am checking, currently my Linux root partition has 25Gb on use and 25Gb free (50 in total). The same sizes and proportions on the 50Gb Windows partition (barely used)... I plan to install games on the new computer (Windows
and Linux) so maybe I will set 100Gb for each OS and leave the rest for shared data storage...
Thanks for the hints, I was thinking about using 150Gb partitions but most space would be unused, commonly I use space for data (work, music, video) more than programs... 100Gb would be fine
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Thanks again
From: Andrei POPESCU Sent: Monday, November 23, 2020 6:00 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dual Win10/Linux on HDD+SDD installation & RTL8821CE On Lu, 23 nov 20, 17:10:56, Kanito 73 wrote:
> Hello > > Finally I bought the laptop with Ryzen 5, it arrived yesterday. At first I backed up (clonezilla) the whole brand new system (Windows 10) before running for first time to have a virgin copy of the original system. Today I will erase the disks to create partitions and install both Windows 10 and Linux, but I'm not sure about how to organize the space. The laptop comes with a 1Tb HDD and a 128Gb SDD. Windows 10 is installed on the 128Gb SDD and the whole 1Tb HDD is empty and available for data. > > Well, I have two options to organize (partitionate) and want to hear (read) opinions: > > OPTION 1: > - Install Windows 10 on the 1Tb HDD using 150Gb > - Leave the remainder of 1Tb HDD for NTFS data partition (shared for Win10+Linux) > - Install Debian 10 on the 128Gb SDD > (Can Linux run on "sdb" (Windows on "sda")?) > > OPTION 2: > - Install Windows 10 on the 1Tb HDD using 150Gb > - Install Debian 10 on the 1Tb HDD using 150Gb A (slightly trimmed) LXDE installation is less than 10 GiB. Even if Gnome or KDE are 3 times bigger, that's still only 30 GiB. You could check the size of your current installation with something like du -hx --max-depth=1 / It will show you how the space is distributed among your top-level directories (assuming all in one partition). I'm guessing most of your space will be taken up by /home, which could be its own partition on the HDD. > - Leave the remainder of 1Tb HDD for NTFS data partition (shared for > Win10+Linux) > - Use the 128Gb SDD to edit/render FHD/4K video faster than in HDD > > I guess that the original Windows 10 is on SDD to load faster and run > programs slightly, but Linux is lighter, my current laptop has a > normal HDD and never required it to load Linux or run programs faster > (except for some games or apps used ocasionally). Debian will benefit from an SSD as well, just try it out ;) > Windows is a big elephant while Linux is a cheetah. So I think it > would be better to use the SDD rendering videos, I know the disk is > short but once the videos are edited and rendered they are stored on > external USB disk and probably I will begin to move to DVD since it is > a lot of "dead space" on external disks that may have a more dynamic > use. Are you sure that operation will benefit from faster storage (as opposed to more CPU and/or RAM)? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser |