Out of curiosity, why 8 partitions? I never really saw myself needing more than four, and that was with more than one OS installed, which I assume you're doing.
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80GB X25 as Boot Disk ?
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1. MacOS + applications
2. Users
3. Vista
4. FAT32 shared drive for moving stuff between MacOS and Windows
5. Unsorted downloads
6. iTunes + general storage
7. Movies
8. Work stuff that doesn't require high speed drives.
This doesn't include external drives which may or may not be connected at any given time.
After thinking about it a bit, I may go pick up an X25 and experiment with it, see if I like it or not. I can always symlink the pro apps crap onto another drive.
Is there any real benefit to partitioning everything off like that (the non OS stuff), or do you do it for organization?
A bit of both.
The unsorted downloads/data partition is on a separate drive from my general storage partition. Why? Because expanding RAR or ZIP files from one drive to another is about a bajillion times faster.
The Users directory being symlinked off makes life MUCH easier because I can easily restore my OS + applications in about 35 minutes (I keep a master image on an extra drive for this) if things go screwy.
the FAT32 partition is a necessity because it's the only way I can move files between Windows and MacOS cleanly. MacOS sucks at NTFS without extra software, and Windows sucks at HFS without extra software.
Movies are on a separate drive altogether because they constitute the majority of my used space (I have around 800 DVDs and I'm slowly ripping them all to high-bitrate H264 files on the computer).
etc etc