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| Storage Management in Windows |
When you purchase a laptop or desktop with windows operating system you have often seen that factory storage management are worse.
They make C Drive with maximum share of storage capacity which is not good thing, because due lack of storage you have to store your data on C Drive and in case of system failure your data will have to be destroyed on installation of Fresh Copy of Operating System.
Now, days every system is coming with storage capacity of minimum 500 GB, so divide your storage drive first in 100 GB for C Drive and rest as you required.
You can increase or decrease your storage capacity for C Drive, but making C Drive 100 GB is ideal for gamers and normal users.
How to do it ?
Answer: 100 GB = (1024 x 100) MB =102400 MB.
If you make your drive partition by entering this value you will get the total size of 99.9 GB or 99.8 GB, which is not looking nice to overcome this problem you have to do one thing see below.
10 GB = 10240 MB, if you make 10 GB partition you will get 9.9 GB or 9.8 GB as your total size of the partition but if you add to "8 MB" to "10240 MB" you will get "10 GB" exact as total size for the partition.
So for making exact 100 GB partition you have to add "(8 x 10) MB = 80 MB to 102400 MB".
Conclusion :
1. Add 8 MB for every 10 GB for making "Exact Size Drive" AKA "ESD".
2. Technically add 4 MB for every 5 GB.
3. Terms for Standard ESDs
ESD10 = 10 GB + 8 MB,
ESD100 = 100 GB + 80 MB,
ESD1K = 1TB + 800 MB.
Note
(i) Remember point 1. of the "Conclusion" part because it is easy to remember and directly applicable on storage management because generally we do not make hard drive partition of 5 GB.
(ii) Storing data on C Drive should be limited, use other drives for storing data.
(iii) Give your drives cool names which is also an easy way to remember your partitions.
Good.
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