Do multiple partitions slow HDD's down?

willhub · 2 Jul 2008 at 21:44

If I had like 5 partitions on a drive, 3 or 4 of them had OS's on and the other one or two had like storage and apps, would it slow the drive down a lot?

willhub · 2 Jul 2008 at 21:52

So if I put an OS on the last partition and first the one on the last would be quite abit slower? And having any amount of partitions then will not cause any sort of slowdown to the performance and loading of my OS?

willhub · 2 Jul 2008 at 22:18

Well I have my OS Partition, then I have most of my programs on another partition, well all my games and apps infact. Going to be a massive slowdown?

willhub · 2 Jul 2008 at 22:27

Thats good then as I plan to install Vista and XP on this machine. Just one question since I dont want to start a new thread, if server 2008 is installed first and then vista is installed would it overwrite the bootloader and make server2008 unable to boot untill editing the boot load or is it just like installing vista twice with the bootloader recognizing em automatically?

willhub · 3 Jul 2008 at 11:03

How do I fix it if vista does overwrite?

I dont want S2008 in a VM, I use it as my main OS configured as a workstation, it is faster.

Just tested my HDD with AAM disabled using HDTach, and the seek time is still 15.8ms :confused:

, bit slow is it not?

here is the long test: :confused: