Partition.Yes or no?

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My new rig will be here tommorow.I got only 1 HDD(400Gb).Do you think that I should partition it to 120(OS,progs)and 280(storage)?Is partition affecting the HDD's performance?
 
Partitioning does make it easier if you need to reinstall and can help from an organisational point of view, however I've never bothered to partition my hard drives but that might just be laziness. As far as I'm aware it shouldn't have any real impact on the performance at all. :)
 
Depends entirely how you're going to use your PC. As Semi says, if you are only going to have that one 400GB drive, and that's all you're going to have for the forseeable future, partitioning is best, as at least then if your windows installation fouls up you can blat just the C: drive, leaving the data on your D: alone. If, however, you can stretch to getting a seperate 100GB or so HD, having physically seperate discs for OS and data does reduce the chance of you losing everything at one fell swoop.
Personally, I've not used partitions in nearly a decade.
 
same here, im buying a 500GB for my new q6600+x38 build. and it's going to have the following partition:
C=50GB for Vista and basic programmes
D=DVD drive, lol. handy to have DVD drive consistent across my computers
E=120GB+ Documents, data and other storage
G=280GB for games only (G stands for Games)
 
I used to partition my hard drives; but these days I don't bother. I found the benefits were very small and the extra hassle and loss of flexibility not worth it.
 
I say partition it. You can get a small speed benefit by keeping the files for Windows etc towards the fastest end of the disk but mainly it means you can format the Windows partition while retaining a section of disk which is untouched - it's far easier to reinstall if you have all the drivers etc on HDD rather than scattered across multiple CD/DVDs.
 
Just asked a similar question here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17773364 but hope you don't mind me asking on this thread as its got more attention.

I always thought that if you were creating and deleting a lot of files that partitions werer a good idea to reduce fragmentation ? I do a lot of video editing and I am creating and deleting a lot of data that I didn't want messing up my games etc.. Can someone clarify please
 
Depends if you have central storage, if you don't its worth partitioning it as it comes in handy. One day my system would not start. That was fine as I have central storage.
 
I have:

C: 40GB
D: 40GB
E: 15GB

I think for programs, files and backups. Only don't partition if you're storing tens of gigabyte files.

Works for me though.
 
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