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samsung f3 short stroke questions

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86waterpumper

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Hi, I am setting up a computer for my daughter to use, and play games on etc. I put a 500gb f3 spinpoint on it. I let windows format the drive, and installed win 7, and then a bunch of update. I decided after the fact that I may as well short stroke the drive to keep the speed high, because there is no way she is going to need all 500gb. Windows allowed me to adjust the partition down to 240gb, so basically half the drive.
Now my question is, from reading around the net some say that the method I used is not short stroking and some do. Do you have to use a 3rd party software to completely disable the unallocated space or is the method I used effective? This is a single platter drive, so all you are doing is keeping data off of the inner tracks so that the drive speed does not degrade as it fills correct? I know that using 1/4 of the drive is the better method, but I had really rather not reinstall if I don't have to.
 
Are you shure that is single platter.. the F4 320GB is single platter yours is 2 I believe.

You can short stroke Use

Partition Wizard or Partiion Magic ,, I think the free trial will let you do this.
 
The F4 is a 640GB platter with a single head, thus using only half.

IIRC the F3 500GB should be a single platter with two heads, to use the full capacity.

I think it won't matter a huge amount to short stroke the drive. The file system usually keeps using the "first" part of the drive (you can see results in Defrag) and drives usually put the "first" part of the drive on the fastest outer parts of the platter (you can see the results on any graphed HDD benchmark as a downwards curve).
 
Thanks for the help. the system is a older athon 64 3500 (skt 939) and so it has the 1.5gb sata so I know it's not going to help a ton. I was mainly just trying to keep the system feeling snappy and responsive on random access, booting times etc. The drive does in fact have most of the data at the outer part like you say zap, but some files such as mbr, paging, sys restore, prefetch etc it throws out at the middle of the volume, and I've not found a defragger yet that would move it.

You can short stroke Use

Partition Wizard or Partiion Magic ,, I think the free trial will let you do this.
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Now see this is the part I'm confused on or want to figure out. What process does partition magic go through for short stroking that would differ from what the windows partition resize tool (or gpart for linux) does? I mean do those programs not just resize the partition as well or is there another step?
 
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