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Partitioning vs. 2 separate hard drives

Synomenon

Synomenon

Lifer
I'm moving from a 2 hard drive system (74GB raptor + 250GB SATA Seagate) to a single hard drive system (150GB Raptor). If I partition the 150GB Raptor with one ~ 50GB partition and one ~ 100GB partition. How much of a performance loss will I see? I store all my audio and video files on the 100GB partition and will have my OS and all my programs on the 50GB partition.

So for example, if I watch videos / listen to music with Windows Media Player and run Photoshop CS2 at the same time, will there be a noticeable performance decrease with this? I've always put Photoshop's scratch disk on the second hard drive (non OS hard drive) and have done that with all other programs that have the ability to specify where to put the program's "scratch disk".

Will I see any noticeable performance decrease when just running normal office tasks: surfing the net, word processing, spreadsheets, etc.? What about if I play WoW?
 
Put the more speed demanding application in the 1st partition. That said, you're probably not going to notice any drop in system performance.
 
No. You were setup with single drives (no raid) so the performance should be the same if not slightly better since the new raptor is faster.
 
So it depends on which partition I create first? I want to put my OS and all my programs, games, etc. on the 50GB partition and use the 100GB partition for storage, audio/video files, etc..
 
I really, really, REALLY doubt you're going to see any meaningful performance differences with or without partitioning a single drive. It could even potentially improve performance by increasing locality (although you lose this if you're streaming a file from one partition while running an app on a different one, but there you'll always be screwed unless you have multiple drives).
 
So having the two partitons on the 150GB raptor and simulatneously accessing them won't have any noticeable decrease in performance?
 
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