Ken,

2 Terabytes may be the smallest drive *you* have, but it's far
from being the smallest one available.

:-) That I have it is because that was the smallest one available in my
town. At the time I even informed about a much smaller, 500GB one, but they
doubted they even could still order them.

And if you are using less than 50GB, that's an unusually
small amount.

Not to me. Than again, I'm not a run-of-the-mill computer user.

You say data *partitions* (plural). Why do you have more than
one of them?

You mean apart from the OS and data partition ?

Why do you have multiple folders on your data drive/partition ? I mean,
you *can* store everything in the root, can't you. :-p

What is each one for, and how big is each one?

#1 - OS partition. 50 G allocated, 6 used
#2 - "working" partition. 50 G allocated, 7 used
#3 - "documentation" and "temp" partition. 50 G allocated, 12 used
#4 - program origionals (ZIP or DVD image formats) backups. 50 G allocated,
14 used.

There is still about 270 G not assigned on that drive. I do not even
expect to ever use it.

Two points about why I have the disk configuration I have:

1. Yes, it's much more disk space than I need.

Same here, even though I've got just a single drive.

2. Yes, I often post messages warning people about the risks
of backing up to an internal HD.

Phew! I was already thinking of how I could rant about how ... unadvisable
that would be. :-)

By the way, the 2 TByte drive I spoke of earlier is actually an USB one
which I use for backups.

*edit*
Ackkk... I just realized that I forgot to tell something that *might* make
a difference: The 'puter I'm talking about in the above is my main, "work"
machine.

I do have another machine on which I also run games, but that one isn't that
big either: 230 GB used, including DVD copies (for backup of the
origionals). Not much of a gamer I'm afraid.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser