Would this increase performance?

[ghosstt]

So who thought this post was going to be sexual from the title?


Well, I'm going to reformat my PC today, but I was thinking of something I saw online once. A PC builder used a smaller hard drive to install windows onto, and used a larger one for storage. If I were to use that same idea, but with partitions, would it increase my PCs performance at all?

[Taiben]

Dunno where your mind is but my first thought was computer.

I never tried that myself but a friend of mine ran a desktop like that for several years. I think her reasoning was that she had over a dozen 40gb and under drives and no money so it was easyer to just use multiple drives. I dont know what that did for performance she never gamed or anything with it.

[eagle5953]

The big advantage is this: you keep all your important files on the larger one, and then if you need to re-install windows, you can easily format the smaller hard drive and do so without risking your files.

Of course, this assumes you are actually using two physical drives, not a partition.

As far as performance, I don't think the improvement would be all that noticable. Yes, if it's a server or something, maybe, but for normal use? Don't think so.

[bicostp]

Smaller partitions = smaller block size = smaller files = less wasted space on disk.

We just bought a 1 TB external drive for music and photo backups (mainly music, yay compy connected to the garage stereo!), and an empty text file was something like 32k. Reformatted it into 4 250 GB partitions, and the empty text file was a lot smaller.

If you have a second physical hard drive, move the swap file onto it and you'll see an improvement in system speed (especially if you have 1 GB of RAM or less, and your primary drive is IDE and the new one is SATA).

[ghosstt]

So its worth it to partition the drive Bic? (At least in terms of space, but not performance?)