1tb partitions 333 in size?

[Xarick]

with a WD black 1tb. Would there be any speed advantage to partitioning it into 3 segments of 333,333,334? Would this restrict each partition to one platter and thus increase the speed of each parition?

 

[taltamir]

no there is no advantage to doing so, no it will not restrict, and no there will be no speed increases.

 

[VirtualLarry]

The layout of sectors on the disk interleave platters, they don't just use all of one platter, then the next platter, etc. So that won't work.

 

[Tweakin]

I'm going to differ from the others on this one...the first partition will be faster then the other remaining partitions as you will be reading/writing to the fastest part of the drive.

This may not happen in the first 1/3 of the drive, the best way would be to run HDTune against the drive, and note where the drive starts dropping off.

Will this be enough for you to see in daily use...doubt it. Would I recommend it...yes. I normally load my games on the first partition of the second drive after determining how large the partition can be while keeping in the fastest part of the drive.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Tweakin
I'm going to differ from the others on this one...the first partition will be faster then the other remaining partitions as you will be reading/writing to the fastest part of the drive.

This may not happen in the first 1/3 of the drive, the best way would be to run HDTune against the drive, and note where the drive starts dropping off.

I've tried to figure out the optimal outer partition size by partitioning first, then testing.
But benchmarks I've used test the whole drive no matter how it was partitioned.
Your "bench first" then partition makes much more sense. :thumbsup::laugh:

Thanks for the input.

Originally posted by: Xarick
1tb partitions 333 in size?

Would there be any speed advantage to partitioning it into 3 segments of 333,333,334?

You CAN'T partition a 1TB drive into 3 x 333,333,334 partions.
1TB drives don't format out to 1TB. :roll:

 

[Blain]

Oops...

 

[dunkster]

<with a WD black 1tb. Would there be any speed advantage to partitioning it into 3 segments of 333,333,334? Would this restrict each partition to one platter and thus increase the speed of each parition?

Users have no control whatsoever about discretely assigning indiviual disk platters. The platters are assigned solely by the HD maker's firmware.

I'm tempted to say that that the first partition would occupy the first-third of each platter - but only the HD-maker knows for certain.

Hope this helps!