>I heard about a hack I never tried, myself, where you buy an oversized hard drive and only use the beginning of it. It's actually kind of funny that "just usi

>I heard about a hack I never tried, myself, where you buy an oversized hard drive and only use the beginning of it. It's actually kind of funny that "just using the beginning 25%" of the drive is completely unnecessary provided you've got your partitions set up properly- you just create a partition at the beginning of the disk that has the data you want to access the quickest, and use the end of the disk for data that you don't access coincident with the data you want to get the fastest (a perfect place to put a dual-booted Linux install, for instance).