Does relocating temporary folders to a separate partition decrease the fragmentation rate?

[bartNL]

Hey,
I was just having this thought, maybe it doesn't make sense, but maybe it does;
If you move(and you change the corresponding environment variables etc. of) your TEMP, TMP, and other temporary and caching folders to a separate partition, does it decrease the rate fragmentation on your system partition? I assume there are often new files created in this in those folders, an older ones are erased. This would cause fragmentation as I understand it.
If they have their own partition, this fragmentation would be limited to this particular partition.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, it just seemed as a reasonable thought to me. (or maybe it's already very common to do this?)

 

[digitaldoc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_space

Yes, what you are describing is known as setting up a "Scratch disk" or "Scratch space." It can definitely be done by partitioning off a section of hard drive for this, or using a separate dedicated drive for this.

It can decrease fragmentation (which is less of an issue with SSD's), and potentially increase speed.

 

[bartNL]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_space

Yes, what you are describing is known as setting up a "Scratch disk" or "Scratch space." It can definitely be done by partitioning off a section of hard drive for this, or using a separate dedicated drive for this.

It can decrease fragmentation (which is less of an issue with SSD's), and potentially increase speed.

Thank you! Then I know it's actually useful what I've done.. In the Google Chrome shortcut, I also moved it's data/cache location to this separate partition, but my experience is that's it's become a lot slower since. I don't know whether this is caused by this phenomenom or not.