About Harddrives and Contents

Conrad11 · 18 Mar 2006 at 19:07

Hi there,

I have a Samsung Spinpoint SATA 80GB and I was wondering:

Is it true that if you have less files on your hard drive its quicker?

Thanks

AnastieByte · 19 Mar 2006 at 07:23

less to search if theres less on it.

Skiddley · 19 Mar 2006 at 15:30

Not necessarially, but the chance of fragmentation is higher when the disk is full resulting in slower performance.

lumocolor · 19 Mar 2006 at 16:16

This is why one should use partitions for both OS drive and programs/games.
DATA (audio,pictures,docs,video..etc) should NEVER be stored on the same partition as the files above.