partition with hardrive

trueboyz

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Hey, can someone tell me if partitioning your hardrive would decrease its performance? If i would cut my hardrive into about 4 partitions, would i get the same speed for each? How many partitions would one able to cut on a hardrive max?
 

Zlash

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No it won't decrease your performance, maybe increase it if your pagefile is on it's own partition. You can make oh 23 or so I think or until you run out of letters in the alphabet, in other words...more than anyone needs.

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trueboyz

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i see. 'cause before when i tried to partition to like 4 parts on my hardrive. It seems that the files transfer slower or something. or maybe it's just my hardrive.
 

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i think the OS associates the clusters of the disk sequentially according to the created partitions.
i.e. for 4 partitions, the first 2 partitions being associated to the first half of the disk are nearly full max disk speed rate but the 2 others are contrary under the average disk speed.


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Yes! If one partition crashes the data on the others are still safe. I keep the OS on the C partition and all my MP3 and stuff on another, then games on a 3rd Etc. When it’s time to format I just format C, then load windows from the copy on my D partition, it’s way faster.

Cya


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