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I have been trying to get into streaming and commentaries for quite some time now, and recently got the last odds and ends for making it possible, or so I thought. I happened to remember that I would need another HDD or SSD to house my OS and the other for my recordings. I could order a new HDD and be fine, but frankly I'd rather do with what I have currently and cross that bridge when I have to get a new HDD.

The real question: can I just partition my current drive and not see a giant loss in performance? I don't plan to record super intensive games but I would like to do an occasional Let's Play or something similar. I'm really just curious is making another partition will be okay for now.
 
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Even if you were to seperate it into another partition, it's still going to be on the same HDD, which will be limited by the same cable and bandwidth.

In short, you're not going to notice a, if any, performance difference by doing this. It'd be better to even invest $79 at your local Best Buy and get a 1TB HDD, format it and slap it in there.
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If you go to Start -> Computer Information -> Select Disk Management Category -> Shrink your make drive and it will create an unallocated partition. Now just partition that unallocated space.

I do however, not see the point of doing this when you could just create a new folder on the harddrive and it will essentially do the same thing.
 
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The only reason I would, is that a lot of people have claimed they see performance lost when trying to save footage onto the same drive as their OS. And I know that making a partition wont curve that a lot, but I was really just wondering if anyone had done so and saw boosts in performance when trying to save footage.
 
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Even if you were to seperate it into another partition, it's still going to be on the same HDD, which will be limited by the same cable and bandwidth.

In short, you're not going to notice a, if any, performance difference by doing this. It'd be better to even invest $79 at your local Best Buy and get a 1TB HDD, format it and slap it in there.
 
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