Hey guys, just trying to get a second point of view on what approach to take here, because I am torn between two ideas of my own.
I just picked up a 1tb WD Caviar Blue drive (10EZEX- single platter 64mb cache) for my HTPC. I know that with a spinning disk, I'd be getting the best performance by NOT partitioning it in general- my first inclination is to just leave it a single large disk, especially since there OS is on a separate SSD.
The other thought I've been having is that I should consider dividing the disk into three sections. The first for large, dense media such as HD movies that read speed would be most important for, the second for all smaller media such as music and photos, and lastly a small third for any random data storage that might be overflow from the SSD.
Maybe I am over-analyzing since the sequential read/write is so high (around 180mb/s). I'm just coming from multiple older drives in the system that averaged around 60mb/s each and actually caused some issues with playback of full HD media.
I just picked up a 1tb WD Caviar Blue drive (10EZEX- single platter 64mb cache) for my HTPC. I know that with a spinning disk, I'd be getting the best performance by NOT partitioning it in general- my first inclination is to just leave it a single large disk, especially since there OS is on a separate SSD.
The other thought I've been having is that I should consider dividing the disk into three sections. The first for large, dense media such as HD movies that read speed would be most important for, the second for all smaller media such as music and photos, and lastly a small third for any random data storage that might be overflow from the SSD.
Maybe I am over-analyzing since the sequential read/write is so high (around 180mb/s). I'm just coming from multiple older drives in the system that averaged around 60mb/s each and actually caused some issues with playback of full HD media.