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Another hard drive question

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OneEyeWilly

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I have 750 gig drive that is partitioned into 2 drives.35gigs and the remainder on the other partition.I wanted my os files on a separate drive.My 2 drives are c and d.I wanted my os files separate for faster speed using utilities ,and other reasons.

I installed utorrent on the d drive(which is just an extended partion,thus a logical drive) so any files I download are separated from my os files.Does this put wear and tear on the drive installing utorrent on the logical drive.I'm wonder because if I'm web browsing or using my c drive ,and files are downloading on the d drive,it seems it will have to do double duty.Is this the set-up I should use?
 
wear and tear has nothing to do with partitioning a drive.

BTW you can have as many partitions as you like, its still one drive.
 
Stoly is quite correct: it's a hard drive, the heads move across the platters as designed, it doesn't matter how you partition it or how the data is spread across the capacity.

I think 35GB is a bit small for an OS (unless it's an older one like XP or something which doesn't require so much space) but that's another thread entirely. For Vista I recommend 50GB minimum for the system partition and Windows 7 about 40GB is as low as one might be comfortable with, just for the OS and some basic apps, that is.

All the "good stuff" can go someplace else...
 
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