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
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