do i need partition

brannsiu · Oct 22, 2014

I've got a 3.5 inch internal harddisk . I will use this harddisk mainly for storage. It's 2T . Do I really need to partition ? Does partition have any positive or negative effects to the harddisk itself?

kanewolf · Oct 22, 2014

You have a partition no matter what. It is just the entire disk is a single partition. A partition is a necessary ingredient in organization of the disk. Now, if your question is do you need MORE THAN ONE partition, that is a slightly different question. IF you have only a single disk, then splitting it to say 200GB for a C: drive and the rest for a D: drive makes it easy to clone the C: drive to an SSD when you have the $$$$.

huilun02 · Oct 22, 2014

No real effect on the hard disk itself.

I'd still make a separate partition to make things more organised and easier to backup.

jayvl · Oct 22, 2014

Making your windows partition smaller may a have speed benefit. I remember reading something about clusters or sectors being smaller if you use a smaller partition, thus making certain read/writes more efficient.

brannsiu · Oct 23, 2014

hi I am the thread starter and the 2TB harddisk is for storage only. I've got another hard disk that serves as system drive. So, for a 2TB hard disk, how many partition do you guy recommend.

Hawkeye22 · Oct 23, 2014

As a storage drive, I'd use a single partition and just use folders for organization, but really, this is a matter of preference.

kanewolf · Oct 23, 2014

brannsiu :

If you don't have any need for a system portion, then a single partition is perfectly fine. Unless you have a reason, most people don't, to limit the space usage for an application or to isolate something there is no reason to not use a single partition.

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