I am currently using a Western Digital 80gb special edition ide drive but i find that it gets bogged down alot. So I decided to pick up a bigger hard drive, and go to sata, but i also thought, what if I partitioned the drive in 2 partitions, one rather small for the os, the other for all the other information, would windows run considerably faster?
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Partitioning sata drive for speed
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Bullitt
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It depends....
I have my disk set up for a 10GB partition for OS (overkill, but I was getting maxed with my old 5GB partition) 80 GB for applications, 20GB for data, and the rest for my linux.
The theory isnt that it makes it go any faster, but rather cut down on disk fragmentation. Keep the OS on the 1st partition, its usually the fastest one. I have my apps towards the middle, but still pretty speedy. Data, I dont care about random reads, its gonna be there.
What I did last build was make 4 partitions (OS, Apps, Data, Temp) and set the 4th partition to handle my IE temp files. I placed my swap space on my 2nd partition with my apps. The 4th partition got fragged to hell due to temp files, but the OS kept speedy. Only when I had a ton of windows updates did I have to de-frag.
Keep the OS on the fastest partition. Thats probably the best advice. In my experience, Windows didnt move Faster, it just stayed quicker, for a longer period of time.
I have my disk set up for a 10GB partition for OS (overkill, but I was getting maxed with my old 5GB partition) 80 GB for applications, 20GB for data, and the rest for my linux.
The theory isnt that it makes it go any faster, but rather cut down on disk fragmentation. Keep the OS on the 1st partition, its usually the fastest one. I have my apps towards the middle, but still pretty speedy. Data, I dont care about random reads, its gonna be there.
What I did last build was make 4 partitions (OS, Apps, Data, Temp) and set the 4th partition to handle my IE temp files. I placed my swap space on my 2nd partition with my apps. The 4th partition got fragged to hell due to temp files, but the OS kept speedy. Only when I had a ton of windows updates did I have to de-frag.
Keep the OS on the fastest partition. Thats probably the best advice. In my experience, Windows didnt move Faster, it just stayed quicker, for a longer period of time.
rowbear62468
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Bullitt said:
a great suggestion....thanks for the info.....will try next install....