Partitioning the Hard Drive

[lastmohikan]

Hello,
I currently own a 750gb hard drive. I have been partitioning this hdd into two parts.
250gb (256.00mb) For the C drive. And the rest for the other one which i keep my installation files and stuff.

Should I give this C drive a little less part in this to get a little bit more performance ? And if it is so how much do you think it will do ? Thanks

 

[glamdringfh]

Hi lastmohikan,

I'm not 100% sure I understand, so let's see if I can re-phrase your question correctly.

You want to partition your 750GB HD into 2 parts:
Part 1) C: Drive (Windows Installation) at 250GB
Part 2) E: Drive (Free formatted space for other files) at 500GB

If this is what you had in mind I'm a bit confused as to why you would want to split the drive into 2 parts. You wouldn't get more performance out of having 2 partitions rather than one on the same drive.

 

[lastmohikan]

Hi lastmohikan,

I'm not 100% sure I understand, so let's see if I can re-phrase your question correctly.

You want to partition your 750GB HD into 2 parts:
Part 1) C: Drive (Windows Installation) at 250GB
Part 2) E: Drive (Free formatted space for other files) at 500GB

If this is what you had in mind I'm a bit confused as to why you would want to split the drive into 2 parts. You wouldn't get more performance out of having 2 partitions rather than one on the same drive.

hello,
my hdd is currently partitioned 250-500 because i keep my installation files in the 500gb part.
i was wondering if i do that maybe 150-600 will it help me get more reading/writing performance

 

[glamdringfh]

As far as I know you won't be getting significant r/w improvement from doing that.

To have faster read/write speeds you would have to get a different hard drive. Either another HDD with a faster rpm/ larger cache, or a SDD (Solid State Drive).

 

[Math Geek]

correct, the size of the partition won't effect performance. this is determined by the mechanical parts inside the drive. to get better performance, you will need better internal parts. the partitions are still all physically the same internal parts so you will see the same performance on all partitions no matter the size.