many partitions 1 OS

[chill]

I run W2K and I intend to create those partitions:

C: as System (pure OS as W2K)
D: as Data (Documents and settings/profiles/e-mail...)
P: as Programs
W: as Works (projects and code)
M: as Media (mp3 or home videos)
N: as MSDN (full)
T: as Temp/Transfer (Downloads/Shared files)
R: as CDROM

Like this I can play with cluster sizes and use my 30GB IBM desksar more efficent. Maybe some partitions can be FAT32 (like MSDN). I have heard that FAT32 is little bit faster?

My Q: is it a good idea at all? Maybe 2 or 3 partitions is good enough and faster also?

Thank U

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[Lars_Coleman]

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[mbetea]

it's been tested, wish i had the exact link off-hand but don't. they did test it at videoguys.com in one of their links. fat32 is a tad faster than ntfs. but with fat32 you get no network encryption, more likely to have corrupted data with fat32. for me the small performance increase isn't enough to justify the risk to run fat32.

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