Re: Can Partition Logic do the trick?

de Al Klein 06/22/2006 04:59

On 21 Jun 2006 15:38:06 -0700, "PaulFXH" <paulfxhackett@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I want to partition my internal HDD (80GB, ATA, NTFS, WinXPas OS) into
>three partition; one for the OS, one for apps and another for file
>storage. My only incentive for doing this is the belief that my
>computer performance will improve (although I have also read that WinXP
>performs best when installed on a drive WITHOUT partitions).

It's like this:

If what you're doing requires a file from the kernel (OS partition)
then a file from storage (data of some kind), the head has to travel
from the first partition to the third partition, a long trip.

Performance is enhanced when you do things like this with more than
one drive. Copying a huge file, for instance, means a lot of trips
for the head if the source and destination are on one drive. If
they're on 2 drives, the heads stay pretty much in one place, just
moving up the files, cluster by cluster.

IOW, you'll either get the same performance (if your drive is now
pretty fragmented) or worse performance (if it's not). In effect,
you're fragmenting your drive in a lot of situations.