Short-stroking: should I leave the non short stroked partition unallocated?

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Rafael Mestdag

Rafael Mestdag

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I can't seem to find a definitive answer to that question. Most people say you can keep the non-short-stroked partition active, as a primary partition for your storage and that it won't affect your short-stroked partition.

But won't the head every now and then look for stuff on the storage partition?

Thx in advanced!

PS: Pls don't tell me to buy an SSD instead, I'll get one when I'm able to.
 
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It depends on what you put on each partition. It will only look for data on your 'non-short-stroked' partition if that's where the needed data is located. If you have your OS and most-used programs on a partition at the front of the drive, that's where most of the disk activity will take place.
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It depends on what you put on each partition. It will only look for data on your 'non-short-stroked' partition if that's where the needed data is located. If you have your OS and most-used programs on a partition at the front of the drive, that's where most of the disk activity will take place.
 
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