3 partition in one HDD is bad for the health?

[Palpatine]

I plan to split my HDD - a WD200BB 7200rpm - into 3 partition 6gb each. I will install WinME, Win2k and Linux. One technician told me that the partition especially with different OS and the possible formats can damage the disk and it is better to buy three small ones to do the job. Do you agree with him or the disk will die because of this in 5 years instead of 7 which is ok because i will replace him in 3.

Thanks for your replies
Palpatine

 

[ronin]

I had the same setup on my WD for 2 years and never had any problems. I don't think that the different formats hurt the drive in any way, they are on different partions.

 

[camieabz]

If you think about it, having seperate OSs on seperate HDDs
will increase the life of them if you use them pretty equally. One drive will be accessed/read/written to more often. One OS will use a drive as often as three.

Other than this, I don't see why you should worry.

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[Arrow]

I think that partitioning will do you a lot of good compared to not partitioning though.

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[BrainStorm]

It will absolutely not harm your HD more than to have only 1 partition with one OS. The only thing you should think of when partitionning is to put the more often used OS at the beginning of the disk since it is the faster part of the disk.

Hope that helps.

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