Need to enlarge my storage now as my current desktop 500GB Seagate 7200.11, WD 1TB MyBook and WD 500GB Passport all filled up.

I'm considering the Samsung F3 1TB, but also tempted for the upcoming Samsung F4 2TB. The upcoming F4 2TB will be 5,400rpm instead of 7,200 and the drive will be utilizing 3 platters. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.

Shall I wait for the 2TB to be release some time this month or grab the F3 1TB first? Hmm... maybe I can later swap the 1TB as primary and dispose the Seagate?

Just bought Samsung F3 1TB

I'm planning to use the drive to replace my system drive which currently Seagate 7200.11 500GB. Well, it been giving me problem like slow access and slow bootup, so better be wise with it now

Any recommendation for the partitioning? Perhaps if you guys don't mind to share out your current partitioning?

I'm thinking of splitting 100GB or 150GB for OS and software while the rest available as one partition solely for storage. Some recommended sparing either 10, 15 or 20GB alone for the OS, another partition for the software and finally the rest for the storage. But when we actually reformatted the OS, high possibility that we will need to reinstall the software since the registry entries or system files will be removed, why would we divide them into different partition? Performance wise perhaps?

Thanks in advance for anyone that sharing