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Extend+Logical or a Primary Partition?


Such a newbie question, as I'm still learning my curves.
Recently along with my rig, I ordered an OCZ Vertex 3 120GB and a WDC Caviar Black 1TB.

I've looked back into my old drive which is a Caviar Blue 320GB, it has 2 partitions, one is a primary (Where the Windows used to be) and the other one is a logical drive, which is apparently an extended partition.
My question is, how should I sort out my drives?
I want the Vertrex 3 to have 2 drives, one 70GB for storing games while the other one is a dedicated 50GB for the OS and the software. I do know that SSD don't need to extend since they're fast as it is, but what are the losses?
Say I want to use that 1TB drive to store stuff (It'll contain VMware OSs and more storage folders), should I just make them all primary, or extend them?

Here's a screenshot of how it currently looks like:
http://oi52.tinypic.com/2ykes1l.jpg

Thanks for the help.

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garfield 		50Gb for windows (7?) is pretty low, just use the hole ssd as a primary system partition
make the second disk also primary (up to 4 primary partitions can be made when more use logical)

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garfield 		an MBR has room for four partitions for that disk
typically a disk with multiple volumes contains
one primary partition(for your opsys) say C:
and one extended partition(containing logical drives) say D; E: F:
within the extended partition are the separate volumes which make up individual drives
as windows sees them.
so an Extended partition has been extended to allow it to contain logical drives

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garfield 		You need to create a primary partition of 50 GB first for the OS. Then create an extended partition & create a logical drive of 70 GB for the games.

Next, you can keep the 1 TB disk as a one single partition for easy access or create partitions the above way if you want.

I personally have a 1 & 2 TB internal & external HDD, one of which I have kept as a single partition.

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