WD6400AAKS Partitioning Question

[therealjustin]

I'm about to buy the Western Digital 640GB SE16 HDD. I was going to get the Seagate 500GB 7200.11 bu the seemingly low reliability on that drive scares me. The 640GB seems to be a littler faster anyway.

I'll be using Vista Home Premium 64(OEM) and I'm wondering how to partition this drive. If I partition the drive so that the OS is on the outer edge of the platter(s) it should give a performance boost. Do I just install Windows as normal and partition the drive? If i create two partitions would that automatically put the OS on the outer edge? In my case it would be about 100GB for OS and programs and the rest for my files.

 

[Triage]

The best way to partition it that I have read, and will be testing on monday when it arrives is to setup a 4-8GB partition for the swap file then a partition for the OS then storage. But will know more when I get a chance. Will post again once I've tested it.