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[zir_blazer]

It is a HD or a SSD? On a HD, that's the norm. Read/write performance is higher at the outer track of the HDs while it slows down for the inner ones.

 

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[sxr7171]

It's an HDD.

So pretty much you're gambling with what you're gonna get with the partition you'll create?

No you are not. Sequential read will always be higher on the first partition because it is on the outside. This is a constant. Create your first partition for what you want read faster.

 

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[VirtualLarry]

It's an HDD.

So pretty much you're gambling with what you're gonna get with the partition you'll create?

Gambling? LOL no.

HDDs have a sequential performance curve. It starts fast at the beginning, and gets slower at the end. Have you ever benchmarked a HDD?

Try downloading HDTune free version from www.hdtune.com , and run the benchmark. It should be illuminating.

 

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[VirtualLarry]

I always used CrystalDiskMark. I'll get that one now.

CDM was designed for SSDs. HDTune was designed for HDDs, and is more graphical.

 

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[XavierMace]

Or better idea, just don't partition your hard drive.

 

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[mv2devnull]

How would that help the performance?

It doesn't affect the performance of the disk.


When you have only one partition, a file may be in principle written anywhere and thus may be in the fastest or slowest part.

When you have two partitions, you know which one is faster than the other and can decide whether to write particular file to the slightly faster or the slightly slower part of the disk. However, it is an another matter how useful and feasible that is.


There are (SAN) disk systems that are aware of the properties of HDD and move data around on the disks in order to "optimize access patterns".

 

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/255224/how_to_partition_your_hard_drive_to_optimize_performance.html

Here is an article on partitioning an HDD for the purpose of putting the OS and commonly used applications on the fastest part of the HDD...

Although if your computer(laptop) can accommodate 2 or more drives you can put in an SSD as an OS & Application Drive then use an HDD for Data.


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