Barracuda 7200.10 best thing to Raptors

[Ronaldo]

Hi guys looking for a fast hdd and saw/heard loads of good stuff about
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache

now my mobo has sata2.

i want good performace when playing/loadinf games and windows

if i partition it will i lose performace?
what i mean is have windows on Vista on C: and D: storage. I'm thinking as the disk spins it will skip the partition part so it will slow the performace a little?

please correct me lol

Thanks

 

[Ronaldo]

cool. not keen on raid

 

[Ronaldo]

cheers mate

"i'm lead to believe that partitioned hard drives run slower that non-partitioned ones (makes sense).

the *hard drive* runs the same speed regardless. multiple partitions are considered less efficient to the *OS*, due to increased overheads in managing multiple partition tables, and additional seek requests sent to the drive.

"

just read that somewhere wondering if its true