Best HDD partition setup for Windows 7 & Applications

[AbsenceJam]

What is wrong, please quantify? I was agreeing but asked given today's fast PCs whether one could actually notice the performance hit. If you're going to quote percentages then also quote real time speed differences.

Of course you can tell the difference. Half the speed at one end than it is at the other, doesn't matter when a drive is from.

 

[Faustus]

Of course you can tell the difference. Half the speed at one end than it is at the other, doesn't matter when a drive is from.

Yes so! - quote the actual real time speeds then please so we can compare the difference.

 

[AbsenceJam]

Yes so! - quote the actual real time speeds then please so we can compare the difference.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=14226902

 

[Faustus]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=14226902

And this is supposed to demonstrate what? Is that a demo of partitions versus single volume? If I was sat there in front of my two PC's one with single volume and one with multiple partitions would I need to go and make a brew when accessing my word documents on the single volume versus the multi partition HD or are we talking milliseconds here where most human beings in the known universe would never notice the difference?

 

[raptormonkey]

I have a 500g drive partitioned into 3:

66g(Approx) for OS and Apps

50g(Approx) for work related stuff

348g(Approx) for backups of pics etc etc

 

[HangTime]

Theoretically yes but with modern PCs where you have fast processors fast hard drives and plenty of RAM I doubt a human being would be able to detect a real difference in performance by doing what you suggest.

The thing is though, the processor and RAM are going to be largely irrelevant when the bottleneck is in the drive speed. And modern physical HDs aren't that quick, you're talking maybe a doubling of speed in the past say 7 years, compared to a much greater speed up in the rest of the system.

I don't bother worrying about partitions myself either, but I can see why people would go down that route to eek out more performance in the slowest area of their system.

 

[Faustus]

The thing is though, the processor and RAM are going to be largely irrelevant when the bottleneck is in the drive speed. And modern physical HDs aren't that quick, you're talking maybe a doubling of speed in the past say 7 years, compared to a much greater speed up in the rest of the system.

I don't bother worrying about partitions myself either, but I can see why people would go down that route to eek out more performance in the slowest area of their system.

I suppose it depends on what you use a PC for and what the spec is in the first instance. I'm not a games player and to be quite honest I wouldn't know how to play one if someone loaded one up for me so strike one there. The vast majority of of my data is word docs, excel, general office apps and photos. My PC has a Quad Core and 3 gig of RAM and to be quite honest when I click a Word doc its opening as my finger lifts off the mouse - how much quicker would I need that to be? No, for me my 500 gig single volume drive has more than sufficient oomph.