"This is a trick I use that works amazingly well.
grab a $365 1TB WD HDD, one of those low power units.
partition the first 35GB as C Drive
Partition the rest as say D drive.
The first 4% (35GB) of that 1TB drive will have an average seek time of .31ms (A Raptor is 12 times slower than that) and a transer rate of 75MB/sec. Apart from a flash drive there is nothing that can touch that, especially in regards to seek time and trust me that is where the delay always is.
cheers..."
I quote this from a guy on another forum, not sure if he posts here or not. Anyway is this true? I haven't been able to get in contact with him and all I can find is this.
I can't find any benchmarks on the net for someone who has done this and run HDTach or another benchmark tool on this small partition at the beginning of the drive.
If its true, you could get blazing performance with the seek of a SSD in windows with massive read/write and still have massive space left over for backup and storage. The theory behind it makes sense but i'm not convinced yet to go and buy a 1TB drive to try it.
So has anyone had any experience with this or is this guy just pulling our legs and figures out of thin air?
I found this link that mentions it slightly, but it's very dated.
http://partition.radified.com/partitioning_2.htm