Should I divided my HDD in to multiple partition for performance increasing?

[JUSOCOM]

Does it give me any performance benefit doing this?

Thanks in advance - Ju

 

[vrumor]

Any thing that you can try to make your HDD faster will result in very little to no gain in speed. Your best choice for faster storage is an SSD.

 

[SoggyTissue]

view your hdd like your bedroom. partitioning is like cleaning your room = less defragmentation over smaller parts = easier to find stuff = seek times faster.

one fat drive is like a messy bedroom, that sock you want/ under the bed. more areas for fragmentation = seek time longer.

also to note, heavy fragmentation will also reduce data transfer rates as the heads need to move to get to the data you want, more movement = less data being transfered per second.

so yes, imo partitioning does help keep your pc performing optimally. you wont 'gain' speed, but you wont LOSE any due to large fragmentation.

 

[jaguarskx]

Partitioning the HDD does not really improve performance. The only reason why I would partition a HDD is to organize things better. Or better yet, in laptops with only a single storage option segregate programs / files to a logical D: Drive that way if I wipe the C: drive or the OS partition becomes corrupted, I would still have my important files. I never install games on the C: drive. Doing so would only inflate the size of the C: drive.

For my HTPC, I do not bother partitioning the HDDs I use to store my media files.